CLADOSTIGMA Radlk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
CLADOSTIGMA Radlk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Abhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen 8 : 412 (1883)
Information
Sericeous shrubs with small or medium-sized mostly fascicled leaves. Flowers dioecious, pentamerous, rarely and abnormally tetramerous. Sepals a little unequal in the ♂ flowers, subequal in ♀ flowers, all equally accrescent in fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped, longer than the sepals in ♂ flowers and about the same length in the ♀ flowers; limb deeply 5-fid. Styles 2, connate at the extreme base; stigmas U-shaped or irregular, lobulate. Ovary 2-locular, each loculus 2-ovuled. Capsule 2-seeded.
Range
A genus of two species in NE. tropical Africa.
Notes
Although close to Hildebrandtia this genus has a distinct facies—the sepals of the ♀ flowers are orbicular or reniform with a distinct convex claw and arranged so that the base of the calyx is urceolate, very different from the arrangement in Hildebrandtia. The anthers are absent in the ♀ flowers whereas in the latter genus they are present.
CLADOSTIGMA Radlk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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