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CONOMITRA Fenzl [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]

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 M. Gilbert (Ceropegia), D. Goyder (Calotropis, Conomitra, Glossonema, Gomphocarpus, Leptadenia, Marsdenia, Odontanthera, Oxystelma, Pentatropis, Pergularia, Secamone, Stigmatorhynchus, Tylophora), J. Lavranos (Ballyanthus, Caralluma, Desmidorchis, Duvalia, Echidnopsis, Edithcolea, Huernia, Orbea, Pseudolithos, Pseudopectinaria, Rhytidocaulon, Sanguilluma, Whitesloanea), S. Liede-Schumann (Blyttia, Calciphila, Cynanchum, Goydera, Pentarrhinum, Pleurostelma, Schizostephanus), M. Thulin (Acokanthera, Adenium, Ancylobotrys, Carissa, Catharanthus, Cryptostegia, Ephippiocarpa, Hunteria, Landolphia, Nerium, Plumeria, Saba, Strophanthus, Tabernaemontana, Thevetia, Wrightia), and J. Venter (Buckollia, Cryptolepis, Periploca, Raphionacme, Schlechterella, Tacazzea). [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CONOMITRA Fenzl [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], (1839)—Field in Kew Bull. 37: 344–347 (1982).
Information
Ephemeral herb; latex not recorded but probably clear. Flowers 1–2, extra-axillary. Corolla with a short tube; lobes narrowing abruptly into a long-attenuate apex. Corolline corona-lobes arising from the top of the corolla-tube at the sinuses between the corolla-lobes, slender, subulate. Gynostegial corona absent. Anthers terminated by short, erect, membranous anther-appendages. Pollinia erect, with translucent germination zones on inner margins, attached to the minute corpusculum by short broad translator-arms. Stigmatic head erect, conical, exserted well beyond the anthers. Follicles erect, usually single, terete, smooth, glabrous. Seeds with a tuft of hairs at one end
Range
A single species in Africa.
CONOMITRA Fenzl [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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