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Antherotoma Naud Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 220, (1978) Author: R. and A. Fernandes
Names
Antherotoma Naud Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Benth. & Hook., Gen. Pl. 1: 745 (1867).
Information
Delicate annual herbs with slender indistinctly 4-gonous stem. Leaves opposite. Flowers 4-merous. Receptacle broadly campanulate. Sepals long-persistent; intersepalar segments present. Petals obovate. Stamens 8, equal, straight, yellow; pedoconnective somewhat long with anterior bilobed appendage at the base; anthers obovate-oblong, dehiscing at the truncate apex by a large pore. Ovary 4-locular, the lower half adnate to the receptacle; style filiform; stigma punctiform. Capsule 4-valved. Seeds cochleate.
Range
A genus with two or three species in tropical Africa and Madagascar.

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 220, (1978) Author: R. and A. Fernandes
Names
Antherotoma Naud Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Benth. & Hook., Gen. Pl. 1: 745 (1867).
Information
Delicate annual herbs with slender indistinctly 4-gonous stem. Leaves opposite. Flowers 4-merous. Receptacle broadly campanulate. Sepals long-persistent; intersepalar segments present. Petals obovate. Stamens 8, equal, straight, yellow; pedoconnective somewhat long with anterior bilobed appendage at the base; anthers obovate-oblong, dehiscing at the truncate apex by a large pore. Ovary 4-locular, the lower half adnate to the receptacle; style filiform; stigma punctiform. Capsule 4-valved. Seeds cochleate.
Range
A genus with two or three species in tropical Africa and Madagascar.

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 220, (1978) Author: R. and A. Fernandes
Names
Antherotoma Naud Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE], in Benth. & Hook., Gen. Pl. 1: 745 (1867).
Information
Delicate annual herbs with slender indistinctly 4-gonous stem. Leaves opposite. Flowers 4-merous. Receptacle broadly campanulate. Sepals long-persistent; intersepalar segments present. Petals obovate. Stamens 8, equal, straight, yellow; pedoconnective somewhat long with anterior bilobed appendage at the base; anthers obovate-oblong, dehiscing at the truncate apex by a large pore. Ovary 4-locular, the lower half adnate to the receptacle; style filiform; stigma punctiform. Capsule 4-valved. Seeds cochleate.
Range
A genus with two or three species in tropical Africa and Madagascar.
Antherotoma Naud Hook. f. [family MELASTOMATACEAE]
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