Comandra Nutt.

Bastard toadflax (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Santalales > Santalaceae

Characteristics

Herbs or subshrubs, perennial, synoecious. Rhizomes somewhat woody, white to beige or blue (then drying blackish), cortex corky or papery, loose exfoliating. Leaves: petiole short or absent. Inflorescences terminal, paniclelike or corymblike thyrses; cymules 3–5-flowered; prophyllar bracteole subtending each flower persistent. Pedicels present. Flowers bisexual, campanulate; hypanthium adnate to ovary proximally, free distally, funnel-shaped; petals (4–)5(–7), white, yellowing with age, ovate or oblong to lanceolate, reflexed upon maturation; nectary lining hypanthium, lobes small, alternating with filaments; styles filiform; stigmas capitate. Pseudodrupes usually multiple, petals persistent, forming neck at apex; exocarp leathery.
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Fls perfect, epigynous; hypanthium well developed, lined with a nectary that is shallowly lobed at the summit alternate with the stamens; tep mostly 5, appearing as lobes on the hypanthium, each bearing a tuft of hairs behind and ± adherent to the stamen; ovary unilocular; placental column geniculate near midlength; stigma capitate; ovules mostly 3; fr a dry drupe, subglobose or with a short neck at the top, surmounted by the persistent sep; glabrous low perennial herbs, colonial by rhizomes, with rather small, alternate or scattered, subsessile or short-petiolate lvs and terminal cymose-paniculiform infls of small fls. 2, the other in Eur.
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Growth form herb
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Images

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Distribution

Comandra world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30020305-2
WFO ID wfo-4000009012
COL ID 3SQ7
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Synonyms

Comandra

Lower taxons

Comandra umbellata