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Gymnanthera R.Br.

Genus

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs or lianas. Cymes apparently axillary, extra-axillary, or terminal, often shorter than leaves. Flowers subsessile. Calyx with 5 to many basal glands. Corolla salverform, tube long cylindric; lobes overlapping to right. Corona lobes inserted at throat of corolla tube, adnate to filaments, ovate. Stamens inserted in throat; filaments short, bases broad, connate, upper part narrow, free; anthers adnate to stigma head, apex acuminate, exserted; pollen tetrads in loose masses, 2 in each anther cell and fixed on 1 common retinaculum. Stigma head short conical. Follicles paired, divaricate, linear-lanceolate in outline. Seeds elliptic.
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Shrubs or woody lianes; latex white. Roots fibrous. Leaves petiolate, membranous; colleters present. Inflorescence somewhat racemiform. Corolla salverform; tube cylindrical; lobes free, imbricate. Annular corona absent; corolline corona of 5 lobes, often bifid, attached to corolla tube behind stamens; gynostegial corona absent. Stamens free above. Anthers 4-locular, adherent to style-head with terminal appendages; pollen granular, aggregated in rectangular or T-shaped tetrads, loose on spoon-shaped sticky translator. Style-head conical. Follicles fusiform. Seeds flattened, oblong, comose at micropylar end.
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Images

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Distribution

Gymnanthera world distribution map, present in Australia and China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3397-1
WFO ID wfo-4000016437
COL ID 4RQN
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Synonyms

Gymnanthera

Lower taxons

Gymnanthera oblonga Gymnanthera cunninghamii
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