Aegiphila Jacq.

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Lamiaceae

Characteristics

Woody plants, mostly shrubs or trees, sometimes scandent; branches and branchlets tetragonal or subterete, glabrous or variously pubescent. Leaves This content downloaded from 192.104.39.2 on Thu, 9 May 2013 15:26:14 PMAll use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions102 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. 60 simple, usually decussate-opposite, rarely subopposite or ternate, deciduous, ex-stipulate, mostly petiolate, glabrous or variously pubescent, entire or dentate. Inflorescences cymose, determinate, the cymes often paniculate, umbellate, capitate, reduced to few or solitary flowers, axillary or terminal. Flowers actino-morphic, hypogynous, hermaphroditic but usually conspicuously declinous; calyx gamosepalous, more or less campanulate, cyathiform or tubular, apically truncate and entire or 4-or 5-toothed or-lobed, accrescent, greatly incrassate and indurated in fruit; corolla gamopetalous, infundibular or hypocrateriform, mostly white or yellow, the tube cylindric, the limb equally 4-or 5-parted, the lobes imbricate in prefloration; stamens 4 or 5, equal, isomorphic, inserted below the mouth of the corolla-tube, included or exserted, alternate with the corolla-lobes, the filaments mostly filiform, the anthers often reduced but sometimes still polleniferous in pistillate flowers; pistil one, the style terminal or subterminal, single, capillary, mostly glabrous, the stigma bifid, its branches elongate and awl-shaped, the ovary superior, perfectly or imperfectly 4-celled, each cell 1-ovulate, the ovules lateral or sub-apical, hemianatropous. Fruit drupaceous, mostly fleshy, globose or sub-globose, (1-3-)4-seeded, sometimes fewer by abortion; seeds without endosperm.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Aegiphila unspecified picture

Distribution

Aegiphila world distribution map, present in Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:41179-1
WFO ID wfo-4000000756
COL ID 8VTC4
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INPN ID 628250
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Synonyms

Manabea Brueckea Aegiphila

Lower taxons

Aegiphila steinbachii Aegiphila hystricina Aegiphila quararibeana Aegiphila brachiata Aegiphila bracteolosa Aegiphila capitata Aegiphila catatumbensis Aegiphila caucensis Aegiphila cephalophora Aegiphila cordifolia Aegiphila coriacea Aegiphila deppeana Aegiphila elata Aegiphila elegans Aegiphila elongata Aegiphila falcata Aegiphila fasciculata Aegiphila fendleri Aegiphila foetida Aegiphila glabrata Aegiphila gloriosa Aegiphila goudotiana Aegiphila grandis Aegiphila herzogii Aegiphila hirsutissima Aegiphila lehmannii Aegiphila macrantha Aegiphila martinicensis Aegiphila microcalycina Aegiphila minasensis Aegiphila moldenkeana Aegiphila montana Aegiphila monticola Aegiphila narinensis Aegiphila obtusata Aegiphila ovata Aegiphila pauciflora Aegiphila pennellii Aegiphila pernambucensis Aegiphila peruviana Aegiphila riedeliana Aegiphila salticola Aegiphila sellowiana Aegiphila skutchii Aegiphila smithii Aegiphila triflora Aegiphila truncata Aegiphila umbraculiformis Aegiphila villosa Aegiphila aculeifera Aegiphila alba Aegiphila arcta Aegiphila australis Aegiphila bogotensis Aegiphila casseliiformis Aegiphila chrysantha Aegiphila cordata Aegiphila cuatrecasasii Aegiphila cuneata Aegiphila dentata Aegiphila duckei Aegiphila exiguiflora Aegiphila farinosa Aegiphila ferruginea Aegiphila filipes Aegiphila floribunda Aegiphila froesii Aegiphila glomerata Aegiphila goeldiana Aegiphila graveolens Aegiphila hastingsiana Aegiphila haughtii Aegiphila hirsuta Aegiphila hoehnei Aegiphila insignis Aegiphila intermedia Aegiphila killipii Aegiphila laeta Aegiphila laevis Aegiphila laxiflora Aegiphila lewisiana Aegiphila longifolia Aegiphila lopez-palacii Aegiphila loretensis Aegiphila luschnatii Aegiphila mediterranea Aegiphila membranacea Aegiphila mollis Aegiphila monstrosa Aegiphila multiflora Aegiphila nervosa Aegiphila novofrifurgensis Aegiphila novogranatensis Aegiphila obovata Aegiphila odontophylla Aegiphila pavoniana Aegiphila perplexa Aegiphila plicata Aegiphila pulcherrima Aegiphila quinduensis Aegiphila racemosa Aegiphila rimbachii Aegiphila saltensis Aegiphila scandens Aegiphila schimpffii Aegiphila sordida Aegiphila spicata Aegiphila spruceana Aegiphila standleyi Aegiphila sufflava Aegiphila sylvatica Aegiphila ternifolia Aegiphila trifida Aegiphila ulei Aegiphila uniflora Aegiphila valerioi Aegiphila vallensis Aegiphila velutinosa Aegiphila venezuelensis Aegiphila verticillata Aegiphila vitelliniflora Aegiphila buchtienii Aegiphila caymanensis Aegiphila lanata Aegiphila longipetiolata Aegiphila mortonii Aegiphila obducta Aegiphila paraguariensis Aegiphila purpurascens Aegiphila roraimensis Aegiphila volubilis Aegiphila wigandioides Aegiphila brenesii Aegiphila cordata Aegiphila anomala Aegiphila obtusa Aegiphila boliviana Aegiphila fluminensis Aegiphila lhotskiana Aegiphila conturbata Aegiphila medullosa Aegiphila aracaensis Aegiphila swartziana Aegiphila uasadiana Aegiphila panamensis Aegiphila integrifolia Aegiphila costaricensis