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HILDEBRANDTIA Vatke [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
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, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
HILDEBRANDTIA Vatke [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin 1876 : 7 (1876); J.B. 14 : 313 (1876) & in Monatsb. Acad. Berlin 1876 : 864 (1877); Verdc. in K.B. 15 : 1 (1961)
Information
Branched xerophytic shrubs with small alternate or fascicled leaves. Flowers dioecious, 4–5(–6)-merous, axillary. Sepals subequal in the ♂ flowers but in the ♀ flowers the outer 2–3 are larger and accrescent or if all sepals are accrescent then the outer ones are much larger. Corolla small, funnel-shaped, several times longer than the calyx in ♂ flowers but only very slightly longer in ♀ flowers, 4–5-lobed. Anthers present but infertile in ♀ flowers. Ovary glabrous, 2-locular, 4-ovuled, present but sterile in ♂ flowers.Styles 2; stigmas filiform, complicate, U-shaped with short lobes at intervals. Capsule 2-locular, 4-valved, 1–4-seeded, enveloped in the membranous veined accrescent sepals. Seeds trigonous, glabrous.
Range
A small but highly characteristic genus of about nine species including several undescribed ones occurring in NE. tropical Africa and Arabia.
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, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
HILDEBRANDTIA Vatke [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin 1876 : 7 (1876); J.B. 14 : 313 (1876) & in Monatsb. Acad. Berlin 1876 : 864 (1877); Verdc. in K.B. 15 : 1 (1961)
Information
Branched xerophytic shrubs with small alternate or fascicled leaves. Flowers dioecious, 4–5(–6)-merous, axillary. Sepals subequal in the ♂ flowers but in the ♀ flowers the outer 2–3 are larger and accrescent or if all sepals are accrescent then the outer ones are much larger. Corolla small, funnel-shaped, several times longer than the calyx in ♂ flowers but only very slightly longer in ♀ flowers, 4–5-lobed. Anthers present but infertile in ♀ flowers. Ovary glabrous, 2-locular, 4-ovuled, present but sterile in ♂ flowers.Styles 2; stigmas filiform, complicate, U-shaped with short lobes at intervals. Capsule 2-locular, 4-valved, 1–4-seeded, enveloped in the membranous veined accrescent sepals. Seeds trigonous, glabrous.
Range
A small but highly characteristic genus of about nine species including several undescribed ones occurring in NE. tropical Africa and Arabia.
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, (1963) Author: B. VERDCOURT (East African Herbarium)
Names
HILDEBRANDTIA Vatke [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in S.B. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin 1876 : 7 (1876); J.B. 14 : 313 (1876) & in Monatsb. Acad. Berlin 1876 : 864 (1877); Verdc. in K.B. 15 : 1 (1961)
Information
Branched xerophytic shrubs with small alternate or fascicled leaves. Flowers dioecious, 4–5(–6)-merous, axillary. Sepals subequal in the ♂ flowers but in the ♀ flowers the outer 2–3 are larger and accrescent or if all sepals are accrescent then the outer ones are much larger. Corolla small, funnel-shaped, several times longer than the calyx in ♂ flowers but only very slightly longer in ♀ flowers, 4–5-lobed. Anthers present but infertile in ♀ flowers. Ovary glabrous, 2-locular, 4-ovuled, present but sterile in ♂ flowers.Styles 2; stigmas filiform, complicate, U-shaped with short lobes at intervals. Capsule 2-locular, 4-valved, 1–4-seeded, enveloped in the membranous veined accrescent sepals. Seeds trigonous, glabrous.
Range
A small but highly characteristic genus of about nine species including several undescribed ones occurring in NE. tropical Africa and Arabia.
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