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KIGGELARIA L. [family FLACOURTIACEAE]
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, (1975) Author: H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden)
Names
KIGGELARIA L. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 1037 (1753) & Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 459 (1754)
Information
Shrubs or trees with simple and stellate hairs. Leaves ± persistent, alternate, entire to serrate, petiolate, fugaciously stipulate. Flowers dioecious, the ♂ ones in axillary cyme-like short racemes, the ♀ usually solitary in the axils of the upper leaves. Sepals 5, almost free, ± valvate in bud. Petals 5, free, with a rather fleshy scale adnate to the base inside. Male flowers: stamens 8–12; filaments shorter than the anthers, the latter basifixed, the 2 thecae opening with terminal pores or slits. Rudiment of ovary 0. Female flowers: sepals and petals similar to those of the ♂ flowers. Ovary sessile, 1-locular, with 2–5 multi-ovulate placentas; styles 2–5, free or connate at base, short; stigmas obtuse. Fruit leathery to almost woody, dehiscing with 2–5 valves. Seeds 8–10, in a fleshy pulp, the testa surrounded by a viscid ± fleshy aril.
Range
A monotypic genus from the mountains of Tanzania south to the Cape Peninsula.
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, (1975) Author: H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden)
Names
KIGGELARIA L. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 1037 (1753) & Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 459 (1754)
Information
Shrubs or trees with simple and stellate hairs. Leaves ± persistent, alternate, entire to serrate, petiolate, fugaciously stipulate. Flowers dioecious, the ♂ ones in axillary cyme-like short racemes, the ♀ usually solitary in the axils of the upper leaves. Sepals 5, almost free, ± valvate in bud. Petals 5, free, with a rather fleshy scale adnate to the base inside. Male flowers: stamens 8–12; filaments shorter than the anthers, the latter basifixed, the 2 thecae opening with terminal pores or slits. Rudiment of ovary 0. Female flowers: sepals and petals similar to those of the ♂ flowers. Ovary sessile, 1-locular, with 2–5 multi-ovulate placentas; styles 2–5, free or connate at base, short; stigmas obtuse. Fruit leathery to almost woody, dehiscing with 2–5 valves. Seeds 8–10, in a fleshy pulp, the testa surrounded by a viscid ± fleshy aril.
Range
A monotypic genus from the mountains of Tanzania south to the Cape Peninsula.
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, (1975) Author: H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden)
Names
KIGGELARIA L. [family FLACOURTIACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 1037 (1753) & Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 459 (1754)
Information
Shrubs or trees with simple and stellate hairs. Leaves ± persistent, alternate, entire to serrate, petiolate, fugaciously stipulate. Flowers dioecious, the ♂ ones in axillary cyme-like short racemes, the ♀ usually solitary in the axils of the upper leaves. Sepals 5, almost free, ± valvate in bud. Petals 5, free, with a rather fleshy scale adnate to the base inside. Male flowers: stamens 8–12; filaments shorter than the anthers, the latter basifixed, the 2 thecae opening with terminal pores or slits. Rudiment of ovary 0. Female flowers: sepals and petals similar to those of the ♂ flowers. Ovary sessile, 1-locular, with 2–5 multi-ovulate placentas; styles 2–5, free or connate at base, short; stigmas obtuse. Fruit leathery to almost woody, dehiscing with 2–5 valves. Seeds 8–10, in a fleshy pulp, the testa surrounded by a viscid ± fleshy aril.
Range
A monotypic genus from the mountains of Tanzania south to the Cape Peninsula.
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