WorldFloraDB - Clappertonia

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, often 3–5-lobed, toothed, 5–7-nerved from the base; stipules deciduous or persistent. Flowers hermaphrodite in 1–3-flowered cymes arranged in terminal or axillary inflorescences; bracts conspicuous, unequal, soon deciduous. Sepals 4–5, free, with a rounded horn at apex, glandular. Petals 4–5, sometimes clawed. Androecium with numerous very short outer sterile stamens and 8–16 or many fertile, the outer shorter than the inner; anthers dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary oblong, 4–8-locular with numerous ovules in 2 rows in each locule; style cylindric with 4–8 linear stigmas. Capsule oblong, dehiscing loculicidally into 4–8 valves, winged or not and ± densely prickly. Seeds numerous with fleshy albumen

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Stamens many, up to c. 12 fertile and slightly longer than the rest; staminodes filamentous or lanceolate-linear and sterile, without anther-thecae.

Capsule ellipsoid or oblong-ovoid, loculicidally 4–8-valved; valves transversely septate within, with many stiff pilose bristles outside.

Ovary sessile, 4–8-locular, with numerous ovules in each loculus; stigma lobed or denticulate at the apex.

Leaves petiolate, usually lobed; stipules linear-subulate to lanceolate.

Small shrubs or perennial herbs, with stellate pubescence.

Petals 4–5, clawed, glandless, pink, purplish or white.

Sepals 4–5, oblong, with an apical or subapical gland.

Inflorescences of small terminal or axillary cymes.

Seeds discoid or compressed-obovoid, numerous.

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39399-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000008468
COL ID	3QGM
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Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Cephalonema Clappertonia

Lower taxons

Clappertonia polyandra Clappertonia ficifolia Clappertonia minor

WorldFloraDB 2024

Clappertonia Meisn.

Genus

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae