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ANISOPUS N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE]
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 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
ANISOPUS N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 259.
Information
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube short, campanulate; lobes 5, spreading, very narrowly overlapping or almost valvate in bud. Corona double; outer inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube, consisting of 5 fleshy lobes at the sinuses (perhaps thickened sinus-angles of the corolla?) or of a membranous ring; inner of 5 fleshy lobes arising from the staminal-column, adnate to it in their lower part, free above, opposite the anthers. Staminal-column arising from the base of the corolla-tube; anthers erect with membranous appendages. Pollen-masses erect, solitary in each anther-cell, attached in pairs by short caudicles to the pollen-carriers. Follicles very long, widely divergent, terete, acute, smooth, seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. A tall glabrous twiner. Leaves opposite, petiolate, herbaceous, with distinct veins. Flowers in umbels, axillary and from both axils, one umbel pedunculate, the other sessile and developing later.
Range
Species 2, endemic.
Notes
Since the publication of this genus I have seen flowers preserved in fluid, in which the processes I have described as outer coronal-lobes appear to be raised or tubercular projections of the sinuses of the corolla itself rather than true coronal processes. The name is formed from ανισoς, unequal and πoνς, a foot, in allusion to one umbel of each pair being stalked and the other sessile. The coronal-lobes or tubercles at the mouth of the corolla resemble those of Leptadenia, and those on the staminal-column those of Marsdenia, near which genus I place it for the present.
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 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
ANISOPUS N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 259.
Information
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube short, campanulate; lobes 5, spreading, very narrowly overlapping or almost valvate in bud. Corona double; outer inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube, consisting of 5 fleshy lobes at the sinuses (perhaps thickened sinus-angles of the corolla?) or of a membranous ring; inner of 5 fleshy lobes arising from the staminal-column, adnate to it in their lower part, free above, opposite the anthers. Staminal-column arising from the base of the corolla-tube; anthers erect with membranous appendages. Pollen-masses erect, solitary in each anther-cell, attached in pairs by short caudicles to the pollen-carriers. Follicles very long, widely divergent, terete, acute, smooth, seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. A tall glabrous twiner. Leaves opposite, petiolate, herbaceous, with distinct veins. Flowers in umbels, axillary and from both axils, one umbel pedunculate, the other sessile and developing later.
Range
Species 2, endemic.
Notes
Since the publication of this genus I have seen flowers preserved in fluid, in which the processes I have described as outer coronal-lobes appear to be raised or tubercular projections of the sinuses of the corolla itself rather than true coronal processes. The name is formed from ανισoς, unequal and πoνς, a foot, in allusion to one umbel of each pair being stalked and the other sessile. The coronal-lobes or tubercles at the mouth of the corolla resemble those of Leptadenia, and those on the staminal-column those of Marsdenia, near which genus I place it for the present.
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 4, Part 1, page 231, (1904) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
ANISOPUS N. E. Br. [family ASCLEPIADACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 259.
Information
Calyx 5-partite. Corolla-tube short, campanulate; lobes 5, spreading, very narrowly overlapping or almost valvate in bud. Corona double; outer inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube, consisting of 5 fleshy lobes at the sinuses (perhaps thickened sinus-angles of the corolla?) or of a membranous ring; inner of 5 fleshy lobes arising from the staminal-column, adnate to it in their lower part, free above, opposite the anthers. Staminal-column arising from the base of the corolla-tube; anthers erect with membranous appendages. Pollen-masses erect, solitary in each anther-cell, attached in pairs by short caudicles to the pollen-carriers. Follicles very long, widely divergent, terete, acute, smooth, seeds crowned with a tuft of hairs. A tall glabrous twiner. Leaves opposite, petiolate, herbaceous, with distinct veins. Flowers in umbels, axillary and from both axils, one umbel pedunculate, the other sessile and developing later.
Range
Species 2, endemic.
Notes
Since the publication of this genus I have seen flowers preserved in fluid, in which the processes I have described as outer coronal-lobes appear to be raised or tubercular projections of the sinuses of the corolla itself rather than true coronal processes. The name is formed from ανισoς, unequal and πoνς, a foot, in allusion to one umbel of each pair being stalked and the other sessile. The coronal-lobes or tubercles at the mouth of the corolla resemble those of Leptadenia, and those on the staminal-column those of Marsdenia, near which genus I place it for the present.
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