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Antherotoma Hook.F.

Genus

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Melastomataceae

Characteristics

Erect annual. Flowers in heads, 4-merous. Calyx-tube ovoid-urceolate; lobes persistent, alternating with slender setose intersepalar appendages. Petals obovate, with an apical tuft of hairs. Stamens equal; anthers oblong-elliptic, truncate, with a large pore; connective produced below the anther, arched and with 2 tubercular anterior appendages at the junction of the filament. Ovary partly adherent to the calyx-tube, convex, with a small setose crown around the style-base. Capsule enclosed in the dry calyx-tube, valvate. Seeds small, cochleate.
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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.
Delicate annual herbs with slender indistinctly 4-gonous stem.
Sepals long-persistent; intersepalar segments present.
Receptacle broadly campanulate.
Flowers 4-merous.
Capsule 4-valved.
Leaves opposite.
Seeds cochleate.
Petals obovate.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26168-1
WFO ID wfo-4000002416
COL ID XC7
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Synonyms

Antherotoma

Lower taxons

Antherotoma gracilis Antherotoma tisserantii Antherotoma tenuis Antherotoma densiflora Antherotoma naudinii Antherotoma clandestina Antherotoma debilis Antherotoma angustifolia Antherotoma senegambiensis Antherotoma irvingiana
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