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LAUREMBERGIA Bergius [family ]
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, (1973) Author: R. Boutique (Jardin botanique national de Belgique) and B. Verdcourt (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Names
LAUREMBERGIA Bergius [family ], Descr. Pl. Cap.: 350 (1767); Schindler in E.P. IV. 225: 61 (1905); A. Raynal in Webbia 19: 683–695 (1965); van der Meijden & Caspers in Fl. Males. 7: 246 (1971)
Information
Herbs, sometimes somewhat suffruticose, with a woody, ± creeping rhizome and rooting at the lower nodes; stems often reddish. Leaves opposite, verticillate or alternate, generally small, sessile or shortly petiolate, the limb entire or lobed. Inflorescences axillary 1–11-flowered fascicles, sometimes of 1–3 pedicellate hermaphrodite flowers and the others ♀ and sessile or subsessile, or sometimes 1 long-pedicellate ♂ flower and the others ♀ and sessile or subsessile, or sometimes long-pedicellate ♂ flowers in the axils of the upper leaves and ♀ sessile or subsessile flowers in the axils of the lower leaves. Flowers with calyx-tube ellipsoid or urceolate, with longitudinal nerves and also longitudinal often strongly mamillate ribs; calyx-lobes 4, persistent; petals 4, sometimes rudimentary or lacking in female flowers; stamens 4 or 8; ovary 4-locular, becoming 1-locular through the dissolution of the septa; ovules 4; styles 4 or absent; stigmas plumose. Nutlets very small, ribbed or not. Seed 1, pendulous.
Range
A small genus considered by van der Meijden & Caspers to contain only 4 species (Raynal estimated 10) in tropical and subtropical Africa, tropical Asia and America.
Notes
The sole species occurring in the Flora area belongs to the subgenus Serpiculastrum A. Raynal, and is very variable.
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, (1973) Author: R. Boutique (Jardin botanique national de Belgique) and B. Verdcourt (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Names
LAUREMBERGIA Bergius [family ], Descr. Pl. Cap.: 350 (1767); Schindler in E.P. IV. 225: 61 (1905); A. Raynal in Webbia 19: 683–695 (1965); van der Meijden & Caspers in Fl. Males. 7: 246 (1971)
Information
Herbs, sometimes somewhat suffruticose, with a woody, ± creeping rhizome and rooting at the lower nodes; stems often reddish. Leaves opposite, verticillate or alternate, generally small, sessile or shortly petiolate, the limb entire or lobed. Inflorescences axillary 1–11-flowered fascicles, sometimes of 1–3 pedicellate hermaphrodite flowers and the others ♀ and sessile or subsessile, or sometimes 1 long-pedicellate ♂ flower and the others ♀ and sessile or subsessile, or sometimes long-pedicellate ♂ flowers in the axils of the upper leaves and ♀ sessile or subsessile flowers in the axils of the lower leaves. Flowers with calyx-tube ellipsoid or urceolate, with longitudinal nerves and also longitudinal often strongly mamillate ribs; calyx-lobes 4, persistent; petals 4, sometimes rudimentary or lacking in female flowers; stamens 4 or 8; ovary 4-locular, becoming 1-locular through the dissolution of the septa; ovules 4; styles 4 or absent; stigmas plumose. Nutlets very small, ribbed or not. Seed 1, pendulous.
Range
A small genus considered by van der Meijden & Caspers to contain only 4 species (Raynal estimated 10) in tropical and subtropical Africa, tropical Asia and America.
Notes
The sole species occurring in the Flora area belongs to the subgenus Serpiculastrum A. Raynal, and is very variable.
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, (1973) Author: R. Boutique (Jardin botanique national de Belgique) and B. Verdcourt (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Names
LAUREMBERGIA Bergius [family ], Descr. Pl. Cap.: 350 (1767); Schindler in E.P. IV. 225: 61 (1905); A. Raynal in Webbia 19: 683–695 (1965); van der Meijden & Caspers in Fl. Males. 7: 246 (1971)
Information
Herbs, sometimes somewhat suffruticose, with a woody, ± creeping rhizome and rooting at the lower nodes; stems often reddish. Leaves opposite, verticillate or alternate, generally small, sessile or shortly petiolate, the limb entire or lobed. Inflorescences axillary 1–11-flowered fascicles, sometimes of 1–3 pedicellate hermaphrodite flowers and the others ♀ and sessile or subsessile, or sometimes 1 long-pedicellate ♂ flower and the others ♀ and sessile or subsessile, or sometimes long-pedicellate ♂ flowers in the axils of the upper leaves and ♀ sessile or subsessile flowers in the axils of the lower leaves. Flowers with calyx-tube ellipsoid or urceolate, with longitudinal nerves and also longitudinal often strongly mamillate ribs; calyx-lobes 4, persistent; petals 4, sometimes rudimentary or lacking in female flowers; stamens 4 or 8; ovary 4-locular, becoming 1-locular through the dissolution of the septa; ovules 4; styles 4 or absent; stigmas plumose. Nutlets very small, ribbed or not. Seed 1, pendulous.
Range
A small genus considered by van der Meijden & Caspers to contain only 4 species (Raynal estimated 10) in tropical and subtropical Africa, tropical Asia and America.
Notes
The sole species occurring in the Flora area belongs to the subgenus Serpiculastrum A. Raynal, and is very variable.
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