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Hilleria Vel. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]
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, (1971) Author: R. M. POLHILL
Names
Hilleria Vel. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Fl. Flum.: 47 (1825), Atlas 1, t. 122 (1835); H. Walt. in E.P. IV. 83: 80 (1909)
Mohlana Mart. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 170, t. 290 (1832)
Information
Herbs, often somewhat shrubby. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, hermaphrodite, zygomorphic, oblique. Sepals 4, 1 free, ± oblong-elliptic, the others united to ± the middle, with the rounded median lobe the longer, accrescent, surrounding the fruit, becoming prominently 3-nerved and sometimes brightly coloured. Stamens 4(–13); anthers dorsifixed. Ovary of1 carpel, somewhat laterally compressed; style very short to as long as the ovary, tapered or capitate. Fruit discoidal, with a slightly toughened skin closely adhering to the seed, reticulately nerved when dry. Seed similarly shaped, with a brittle black testa.
Range
Four species in South America, H. latifolia widespread also in Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Is.
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, (1971) Author: R. M. POLHILL
Names
Hilleria Vel. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Fl. Flum.: 47 (1825), Atlas 1, t. 122 (1835); H. Walt. in E.P. IV. 83: 80 (1909)
Mohlana Mart. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 170, t. 290 (1832)
Information
Herbs, often somewhat shrubby. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, hermaphrodite, zygomorphic, oblique. Sepals 4, 1 free, ± oblong-elliptic, the others united to ± the middle, with the rounded median lobe the longer, accrescent, surrounding the fruit, becoming prominently 3-nerved and sometimes brightly coloured. Stamens 4(–13); anthers dorsifixed. Ovary of1 carpel, somewhat laterally compressed; style very short to as long as the ovary, tapered or capitate. Fruit discoidal, with a slightly toughened skin closely adhering to the seed, reticulately nerved when dry. Seed similarly shaped, with a brittle black testa.
Range
Four species in South America, H. latifolia widespread also in Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Is.
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, (1971) Author: R. M. POLHILL
Names
Hilleria Vel. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Fl. Flum.: 47 (1825), Atlas 1, t. 122 (1835); H. Walt. in E.P. IV. 83: 80 (1909)
Mohlana Mart. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 170, t. 290 (1832)
Information
Herbs, often somewhat shrubby. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, hermaphrodite, zygomorphic, oblique. Sepals 4, 1 free, ± oblong-elliptic, the others united to ± the middle, with the rounded median lobe the longer, accrescent, surrounding the fruit, becoming prominently 3-nerved and sometimes brightly coloured. Stamens 4(–13); anthers dorsifixed. Ovary of1 carpel, somewhat laterally compressed; style very short to as long as the ovary, tapered or capitate. Fruit discoidal, with a slightly toughened skin closely adhering to the seed, reticulately nerved when dry. Seed similarly shaped, with a brittle black testa.
Range
Four species in South America, H. latifolia widespread also in Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Is.
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