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Hyalocalyx Rolfe

Genus

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Passifloraceae

Characteristics

Hirsute herbs with exstipulate leaves and small (± 4.5 mm. long) solitary axillary heterostylous flowers. Calyx hyaline, connate for about half its length, appendaged. Petals and stamens adnate to calyx very near the base of the calyx-tube. Filaments flattened below; anthers very broadly oblong. Placentae parietal, each about 4-ovulate; stigmas laciniate. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally from apex, beak absent. Seeds several, curved. Aril not less than half length of seed.
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Seeds oblong-obovoid, curved, with rigid, reticulate-alveolate testa; aril entire; albumen abundant, oily.
Ovary ovoid, with 3 parietal placentas; styles 3, filiform, straight, with laciniate-flabellate stigmas.
Flowers solitary in the axils of the upper very closely arranged leaves, heterostylous.
Filaments linear, flattened below; anthers cordate-ovate.
Petals and stamens adnate to the base of the calyx-tube.
Capsule 3-valved, opening loculicidally from the apex.
Sepals hyaline-membranous, connate in the lower half.
Leaves exstipulate, petiolate.
Annual herbs.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39582-1
WFO ID wfo-4000018472
COL ID 4ZDW
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Synonyms

Hyalocalyx

Lower taxons

Hyalocalyx setiferus Hyalocalyx setifer
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