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ANTICHARIS Endl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE]
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, (2008) Author: S.A. GHAZANFAR, F.N. HEPPER & D. PHILCOX
Names
ANTICHARIS Endl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Nov. Stirp. Dec.: 22 (1839) & Gen. Pl.: 682 (1839) & Iconogr.: t. 93 (1839)
Distemon Aschers. [family URTICACEAE], in Monatsberg., Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1866: 880 (1867)
Gerardiopsis Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], P.O.A. C: 359 (1895) & in E.J. 23: 507 (1897)
Information
Small herbs, erect, with glandular pubescence. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers axillary, solitary, pedicellate, often 2-bracteolate. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate. Corolla 5, lobes sub-equal. Stamens 2, anterior, included; filaments inserted above the base of the corolla tube; anthers at first crescent-shaped, after dehiscence straight, free or cohering; staminodes absent; style filiform; stigma slightly bifid. Capsule 2-locular, loculicidal and septicidal. Seeds numerous.
Range
10 species in dry zones, from SW Africa to Arabia and India.
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, (2008) Author: S.A. GHAZANFAR, F.N. HEPPER & D. PHILCOX
Names
ANTICHARIS Endl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Nov. Stirp. Dec.: 22 (1839) & Gen. Pl.: 682 (1839) & Iconogr.: t. 93 (1839)
Distemon Aschers. [family URTICACEAE], in Monatsberg., Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1866: 880 (1867)
Gerardiopsis Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], P.O.A. C: 359 (1895) & in E.J. 23: 507 (1897)
Information
Small herbs, erect, with glandular pubescence. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers axillary, solitary, pedicellate, often 2-bracteolate. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate. Corolla 5, lobes sub-equal. Stamens 2, anterior, included; filaments inserted above the base of the corolla tube; anthers at first crescent-shaped, after dehiscence straight, free or cohering; staminodes absent; style filiform; stigma slightly bifid. Capsule 2-locular, loculicidal and septicidal. Seeds numerous.
Range
10 species in dry zones, from SW Africa to Arabia and India.
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, (2008) Author: S.A. GHAZANFAR, F.N. HEPPER & D. PHILCOX
Names
ANTICHARIS Endl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], Nov. Stirp. Dec.: 22 (1839) & Gen. Pl.: 682 (1839) & Iconogr.: t. 93 (1839)
Distemon Aschers. [family URTICACEAE], in Monatsberg., Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1866: 880 (1867)
Gerardiopsis Engl. [family SCROPHULARIACEAE], P.O.A. C: 359 (1895) & in E.J. 23: 507 (1897)
Information
Small herbs, erect, with glandular pubescence. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers axillary, solitary, pedicellate, often 2-bracteolate. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate. Corolla 5, lobes sub-equal. Stamens 2, anterior, included; filaments inserted above the base of the corolla tube; anthers at first crescent-shaped, after dehiscence straight, free or cohering; staminodes absent; style filiform; stigma slightly bifid. Capsule 2-locular, loculicidal and septicidal. Seeds numerous.
Range
10 species in dry zones, from SW Africa to Arabia and India.
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