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PHARNACEUM Linn. [family MOLLUGINACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 581, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
PHARNACEUM Linn. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 857.
Information
Sepals 5, nearly equal, membranous-margined, persistent. Petals 0. Stamens 5–10 (3–∞), subhypogynous. Disk lobed or 0. Ovary free, 3–5-celled; stigmas as many as cells, short; ovules ∞, axile. Capsule membranous, 3–5-celled, loculicidally 3–5-valved; seeds smooth, shining or minutely granulate, unappendaged. Annual or perennial low herbs, often frutescent at base. Leaves alternate or pseudo-verticillate, fleshy, terete (or various), stipulate; stipules scarious, setaceous-fimbriate or leaf-sheath with a subulate tooth on each side. Flowers in pedunculate umbels (or variously cymose).
Range
Almost exclusively confined to the Cape of Good Hope.
Notes
The following species is nearly allied to P. acidum, Hook. f., of St. Helena.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 581, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
PHARNACEUM Linn. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 857.
Information
Sepals 5, nearly equal, membranous-margined, persistent. Petals 0. Stamens 5–10 (3–∞), subhypogynous. Disk lobed or 0. Ovary free, 3–5-celled; stigmas as many as cells, short; ovules ∞, axile. Capsule membranous, 3–5-celled, loculicidally 3–5-valved; seeds smooth, shining or minutely granulate, unappendaged. Annual or perennial low herbs, often frutescent at base. Leaves alternate or pseudo-verticillate, fleshy, terete (or various), stipulate; stipules scarious, setaceous-fimbriate or leaf-sheath with a subulate tooth on each side. Flowers in pedunculate umbels (or variously cymose).
Range
Almost exclusively confined to the Cape of Good Hope.
Notes
The following species is nearly allied to P. acidum, Hook. f., of St. Helena.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 581, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
PHARNACEUM Linn. [family MOLLUGINACEAE], Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 857.
Information
Sepals 5, nearly equal, membranous-margined, persistent. Petals 0. Stamens 5–10 (3–∞), subhypogynous. Disk lobed or 0. Ovary free, 3–5-celled; stigmas as many as cells, short; ovules ∞, axile. Capsule membranous, 3–5-celled, loculicidally 3–5-valved; seeds smooth, shining or minutely granulate, unappendaged. Annual or perennial low herbs, often frutescent at base. Leaves alternate or pseudo-verticillate, fleshy, terete (or various), stipulate; stipules scarious, setaceous-fimbriate or leaf-sheath with a subulate tooth on each side. Flowers in pedunculate umbels (or variously cymose).
Range
Almost exclusively confined to the Cape of Good Hope.
Notes
The following species is nearly allied to P. acidum, Hook. f., of St. Helena.
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