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PENTANOPSIS Rendle [family RUBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PENTANOPSIS Rendle [family RUBIACEAE], (1898)
Information
Slender shrubs or subshrubs. Leaves opposite, linear-subulate to lanceolate; stipules sheathing the stem, united with petiole, with fimbriate margin. Flowers fragrant, heterostylous, solitary or few together terminating short shoots; pedicels short. Calyx-tube obovoid; lobes 4, narrowly triangular to linear. Corolla with slender tube; lobes 4, induplicate-valvate in bud. Ovary 2-celled with numerous ovules on peltate placentas inserted at the base of the septum; style with filiform stigma-lobes shortly exserted in long-styled flowers, included in short-styled flowers. Capsule with a short beak, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds flat, elliptic, reticulate. Genus of two species in north-eastern tropical Africa.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PENTANOPSIS Rendle [family RUBIACEAE], (1898)
Information
Slender shrubs or subshrubs. Leaves opposite, linear-subulate to lanceolate; stipules sheathing the stem, united with petiole, with fimbriate margin. Flowers fragrant, heterostylous, solitary or few together terminating short shoots; pedicels short. Calyx-tube obovoid; lobes 4, narrowly triangular to linear. Corolla with slender tube; lobes 4, induplicate-valvate in bud. Ovary 2-celled with numerous ovules on peltate placentas inserted at the base of the septum; style with filiform stigma-lobes shortly exserted in long-styled flowers, included in short-styled flowers. Capsule with a short beak, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds flat, elliptic, reticulate. Genus of two species in north-eastern tropical Africa.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by D. Bridson & M. Thulin (Pavetta), J. Degreef & D. Bridson (Coptosperma), and M. Thulin (Agathisanthemum, Canthium, Carphalea, Catunaregam, Coffea, Conostomium, Diodia, Feretia, Galium, Gardenia, Heinsia, Kohautia, Lamprothamnus, Meyna, Oldenlandia, Oxyanthus, Pachystigma, Paederia, Pentanisia, Pentanopsis, Pentas, Pentodon, Plocama, Polysphaeria, Psychotria, Psydrax, Pyrostria, Rothmannia, Rubia, Rytigynia, Spermacoce, Tennantia, Tricalysia, Valantia, Vangueria, Wendlandia) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PENTANOPSIS Rendle [family RUBIACEAE], (1898)
Information
Slender shrubs or subshrubs. Leaves opposite, linear-subulate to lanceolate; stipules sheathing the stem, united with petiole, with fimbriate margin. Flowers fragrant, heterostylous, solitary or few together terminating short shoots; pedicels short. Calyx-tube obovoid; lobes 4, narrowly triangular to linear. Corolla with slender tube; lobes 4, induplicate-valvate in bud. Ovary 2-celled with numerous ovules on peltate placentas inserted at the base of the septum; style with filiform stigma-lobes shortly exserted in long-styled flowers, included in short-styled flowers. Capsule with a short beak, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds flat, elliptic, reticulate. Genus of two species in north-eastern tropical Africa.
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