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CONGOLANTHUS A. Raynal [family GENTIANACEAE]

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, (2002) Author: SILESHI NEMOMISSA
Names
CONGOLANTHUS A. Raynal [family GENTIANACEAE], in Adansonia, sér. 2, 8: 56 (1968)
Information
Annual herb. Stem erect, slender, usually branched, 4-angled. Leaves sessile, opposite. Inflorescences axillary, proliferating. Flowers 4-merous, ± sessile. Calyx tube cylindrical, papyraceous; segments acuminate. Corolla tube cylindrical; lobes ovate, much shorter than the tube. Filaments inserted into the corolla tube; anthers narrowly ellipsoid. Ovary unilocular, ellipsoid or oblong; ovules numerous; style filiform; stigma bilobed. Capsule bivalved. Seeds numerous, surface reticulate-pitted.
Range
A monotypic African genus, related to Neurotheca .

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, (2002) Author: SILESHI NEMOMISSA
Names
CONGOLANTHUS A. Raynal [family GENTIANACEAE], in Adansonia, sér. 2, 8: 56 (1968)
Information
Annual herb. Stem erect, slender, usually branched, 4-angled. Leaves sessile, opposite. Inflorescences axillary, proliferating. Flowers 4-merous, ± sessile. Calyx tube cylindrical, papyraceous; segments acuminate. Corolla tube cylindrical; lobes ovate, much shorter than the tube. Filaments inserted into the corolla tube; anthers narrowly ellipsoid. Ovary unilocular, ellipsoid or oblong; ovules numerous; style filiform; stigma bilobed. Capsule bivalved. Seeds numerous, surface reticulate-pitted.
Range
A monotypic African genus, related to Neurotheca .

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, (2002) Author: SILESHI NEMOMISSA
Names
CONGOLANTHUS A. Raynal [family GENTIANACEAE], in Adansonia, sér. 2, 8: 56 (1968)
Information
Annual herb. Stem erect, slender, usually branched, 4-angled. Leaves sessile, opposite. Inflorescences axillary, proliferating. Flowers 4-merous, ± sessile. Calyx tube cylindrical, papyraceous; segments acuminate. Corolla tube cylindrical; lobes ovate, much shorter than the tube. Filaments inserted into the corolla tube; anthers narrowly ellipsoid. Ovary unilocular, ellipsoid or oblong; ovules numerous; style filiform; stigma bilobed. Capsule bivalved. Seeds numerous, surface reticulate-pitted.
Range
A monotypic African genus, related to Neurotheca .
CONGOLANTHUS A. Raynal [family GENTIANACEAE]
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