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LOEWIA Urb. [family TURNERACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1954) Author: J. Lewis
Names
LOEWIA Urb. [family TURNERACEAE], in Ann. R. 1st. Bot. Rom. 6: 189 (1897)
Information
Shrubs; densely hirsute or pubescent, often including stellate hairs; glandular. Stipules absent (? or obscure). Bracts leaflike. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, erect, trumpet-shaped, bibracteolate, heterostylous (or probably so). Calyx connate for about half its length or more. Petals white, yellow or bright orange, usually inserted at or near the opening of the calyx-tube. Placentae parietal. Capsule narrowly obovoid, dehiscing loculicidially from apex downwards; beak very short. Seeds several, curved; pits 2-pored.
Range
A genus closely allied to Turnera L., but confined to E. and NE. Africa
Notes
Adequately flowering material of this genus is scarce in herbaria possibly because the flowers of its members have a very short mature phase, as do those of the herbaceous genera.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1954) Author: J. Lewis
Names
LOEWIA Urb. [family TURNERACEAE], in Ann. R. 1st. Bot. Rom. 6: 189 (1897)
Information
Shrubs; densely hirsute or pubescent, often including stellate hairs; glandular. Stipules absent (? or obscure). Bracts leaflike. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, erect, trumpet-shaped, bibracteolate, heterostylous (or probably so). Calyx connate for about half its length or more. Petals white, yellow or bright orange, usually inserted at or near the opening of the calyx-tube. Placentae parietal. Capsule narrowly obovoid, dehiscing loculicidially from apex downwards; beak very short. Seeds several, curved; pits 2-pored.
Range
A genus closely allied to Turnera L., but confined to E. and NE. Africa
Notes
Adequately flowering material of this genus is scarce in herbaria possibly because the flowers of its members have a very short mature phase, as do those of the herbaceous genera.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1954) Author: J. Lewis
Names
LOEWIA Urb. [family TURNERACEAE], in Ann. R. 1st. Bot. Rom. 6: 189 (1897)
Information
Shrubs; densely hirsute or pubescent, often including stellate hairs; glandular. Stipules absent (? or obscure). Bracts leaflike. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils, erect, trumpet-shaped, bibracteolate, heterostylous (or probably so). Calyx connate for about half its length or more. Petals white, yellow or bright orange, usually inserted at or near the opening of the calyx-tube. Placentae parietal. Capsule narrowly obovoid, dehiscing loculicidially from apex downwards; beak very short. Seeds several, curved; pits 2-pored.
Range
A genus closely allied to Turnera L., but confined to E. and NE. Africa
Notes
Adequately flowering material of this genus is scarce in herbaria possibly because the flowers of its members have a very short mature phase, as do those of the herbaceous genera.
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