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Corbichonia Scop.

Genus

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Lophiocarpaceae

Characteristics

Glabrous procumbent or ascending annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, obovate to rotundate, entire, apiculate, subsucculent. Inflorescences terminal or leaf-opposed few-to many-flowered cymes. Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, pedicellate. Sepals 5, free. Staminodes many, delicate, petaloid. Stamens many, hypogynous. Ovary superior, 5-locular, 5-lobed, of 5 united carpels; ovules many per loculus, axile; styles 5, free, sessile, linear. Fruit a 5-valved loculicidal capsule. Seeds many, subreniform.
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Leaves alternate, petiolate, subsucculent, from obovate to orbicular, entire, apiculate.
Ovary superior, 5-locular, 5-lobed, of 5 united carpels.
Glabrous, erect to prostrate, annual or perennial herb.
Inflorescence a terminal few-many-flowered cyme.
Ovules many per loculus; placentation axile.
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular, pedicellate.
Fruit a 5-valved loculicidal capsule.
Staminodes many, petaloid, slender.
Styles 5, free, sessile, linear.
Perianth-segments 5, free.
Stamens many, hypogynous.
Seeds many, subreniform.
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16141-1
WFO ID wfo-4000009252
COL ID 3TY4
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Synonyms

Corbichonia

Lower taxons

Corbichonia decumbens Corbichonia rubriviolacea
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