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FERETIA Del. [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
FERETIA Del. [family RUBIACEAE], (1843)—Bridson in Kew Bull. 34: 367–370 (1979).
Information
Shrubs. Stipules±ovate, brown and papery when dry. Flowers fragrant, bisexual, sessile and appearing terminal on short leafless spurs or sometimes pedicellate in pairs from the axils of young leaves, 5-merous; bracts and bracteoles papery when dry. Calyx-tube narrowly ovoid. Corolla-tube funnel-shaped above, cylindrical below; lobes overlapping to the left in bud. Stamens inserted at throat; anthers sessile, exserted. Disk annular. Ovary 2-celled; ovules pendulous in two rows from a small fleshy placenta; style slender, stigmatic club bifid. Fruit globose, fleshy; calyx-lobes eventually falling off. Seeds compressed, with finely reticulate testa. Genus of two species, both in tropical Africa.
FERETIA Del. [family RUBIACEAE]
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