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Hilleria Vell.

Genus

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Petiveriaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, often somewhat shrubby. Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, hermaphrodite, zygomorphic, oblique. Sepals 4, 1 free, ± oblong-elliptic, the others united to ± the middle, with the rounded median lobe the longer, accrescent, surrounding the fruit, becoming prominently 3-nerved and sometimes brightly coloured. Stamens 4(–13); anthers dorsifixed. Ovary of1 carpel, somewhat laterally compressed; style very short to as long as the ovary, tapered or capitate. Fruit discoidal, with a slightly toughened skin closely adhering to the seed, reticulately nerved when dry. Seed similarly shaped, with a brittle black testa.
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Leaves ovate or elliptic to broadly lanceolate, acuminate, rounded to cuneate and often unequal at base, petiolate.
Ovary subspherical, slightly compressed laterally, unicarpellate; style indistinct or short, stigma capitate.
Sepals 4, one free, 3 united with centre one slightly larger, accrescent at fruiting.
Fruit lenticulate, sometimes slightly asymmetric, pericarp reticulately wrinkled.
Stamens 4–13; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifixed.
Flowers hermaphrodite, more or less zygomorphic.
Inflorescences terminal and axillary racemes.
Herbs, sometimes woody at base.
Seed discoidal; testa black.
Bracts single, caudate.
Bracteoles in pairs.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:31923-1
WFO ID wfo-4000017915
COL ID 4X8G
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Synonyms

Hilleria

Lower taxons

Hilleria latifolia Hilleria longifolia Hilleria secunda
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