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AMMANNIA L. [family LYTHRACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
AMMANNIA L. [family LYTHRACEAE], (1753)
Information
Annual herbs, glabrous except for calyx; stems 4-sided. Flowers in axillary cymes, rarely solitary, sometimes congested; bracteoles minute, membranous. Flowers 4(–8)-merous, never heterostylous. Hypanthium campanulate or urn-shaped. Sepals short, sinus-horns minute or absent. Petals absent or 4–8, small. Stamens 1–2 times as many as sepals, rarely fewer. Ovary incompletely 2–4(–5)-celled, rarely 1-celled, style not continuous with placenta. Capsule included within or exserted from hypanthium, membranous, often ± transparent-walled, dehiscing irregularly transversely. Seeds very small, numerous.
Range
About 20 species of wet habitats throughout the tropics and subtropics.
Notes
Records from Somalia of A. hildebrandtii Koehne and A. multiflora Roxb. in Cuf. Enum. (1959) are based on material of A. baccifera. Records from Somalia of A. crassissima Koehne and A. senegalensis Lam. are based on material from Ethiopia.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
AMMANNIA L. [family LYTHRACEAE], (1753)
Information
Annual herbs, glabrous except for calyx; stems 4-sided. Flowers in axillary cymes, rarely solitary, sometimes congested; bracteoles minute, membranous. Flowers 4(–8)-merous, never heterostylous. Hypanthium campanulate or urn-shaped. Sepals short, sinus-horns minute or absent. Petals absent or 4–8, small. Stamens 1–2 times as many as sepals, rarely fewer. Ovary incompletely 2–4(–5)-celled, rarely 1-celled, style not continuous with placenta. Capsule included within or exserted from hypanthium, membranous, often ± transparent-walled, dehiscing irregularly transversely. Seeds very small, numerous.
Range
About 20 species of wet habitats throughout the tropics and subtropics.
Notes
Records from Somalia of A. hildebrandtii Koehne and A. multiflora Roxb. in Cuf. Enum. (1959) are based on material of A. baccifera. Records from Somalia of A. crassissima Koehne and A. senegalensis Lam. are based on material from Ethiopia.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert & M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
AMMANNIA L. [family LYTHRACEAE], (1753)
Information
Annual herbs, glabrous except for calyx; stems 4-sided. Flowers in axillary cymes, rarely solitary, sometimes congested; bracteoles minute, membranous. Flowers 4(–8)-merous, never heterostylous. Hypanthium campanulate or urn-shaped. Sepals short, sinus-horns minute or absent. Petals absent or 4–8, small. Stamens 1–2 times as many as sepals, rarely fewer. Ovary incompletely 2–4(–5)-celled, rarely 1-celled, style not continuous with placenta. Capsule included within or exserted from hypanthium, membranous, often ± transparent-walled, dehiscing irregularly transversely. Seeds very small, numerous.
Range
About 20 species of wet habitats throughout the tropics and subtropics.
Notes
Records from Somalia of A. hildebrandtii Koehne and A. multiflora Roxb. in Cuf. Enum. (1959) are based on material of A. baccifera. Records from Somalia of A. crassissima Koehne and A. senegalensis Lam. are based on material from Ethiopia.
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