Corallodiscus Batalin

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Gesneriaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, epipetric, rhizomatous, stemless. Leaves many, basal; leaf blade glabrous to densely woolly, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, rarely subrounded. Inflorescences lax or dense, axillary, rarely subumbel-like, 1-to many-flowered cymes; bracts apparently absent. Calyx actinomorphic, 5-sect from near base to 5-lobed from near middle; segments equal. Corolla blue to purple, seldom yellow to white, zygomorphic, inside densely bearded on abaxial lip; tube tubular, not swollen, much longer than limb, 1-7 mm in diam.; limb 2-lipped; adaxial lip 2-lobed, usually distinctly shorter than abaxial lip; abaxial lip 3-lobed, lobes subequal, rarely unequal, apex rounded to obtuse. Stamens 4, adnate to corolla tube above base or rarely above middle, included or rarely slightly exserted; anthers dorsifixed, coherent in pairs, thecae divaricate, confluent, dehiscing longitudinally; connective not projecting; staminode 1, adnate to adaxial side of corolla tube. Disc ringlike. Ovary oblong, 1-loculed; placentas 2, parietal, projecting inward, 2-cleft. Stigma 1, terminal, capitate, emarginate. Capsule straight in relation to pedicel, narrowly oblong to linear, rarely ovoid, much longer than calyx, dehiscing loculicidally or sometimes septicidally to base; valves 2, straight, not twisted. Seeds unappendaged.
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Images

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Distribution

Corallodiscus world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16970-1
WFO ID wfo-4000009247
COL ID 3TX7
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Corallodiscus

Lower taxons

Corallodiscus cooperi Corallodiscus bhutanicus Corallodiscus lanuginosus Corallodiscus forrestii Corallodiscus grandis Corallodiscus kingianus