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Kleinhovia L.

Genus

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae

Characteristics

Trees. Leaves ovate, entire, basally palmately 3-7-veined. Inflorescence terminal, cymose, forming a lax panicle. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic. Epicalyx lobes minute, lanceolate. Sepals 5, free. Petals 5, unequal. Stamens 15; filaments connate into staminal tube, completely adnate to ovary stipe to form androgynophore, upper part of staminal tube enlarged and urceolate, enclosing pistil; anthers in 5 groups of 3, 2-celled; staminodes reduced to small teeth alternating with anther fascicles. Ovary on top of androgynophore, 5-loculed, 5-lobed; ovules 5 in each locule; style slender; stigma 5-lobed. Capsule membranous, inflated, loculicidal. Seeds 1-2 in each locule, globose, verrucose.
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Shrubs or small trees with pubescent twigs, petioles and leaves; bark fibrous. Leaves alternate, simple; stipules sublinear, caducous. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, in a large, terminal panicle; pedicel jointed. Sepals 5, free. Petals 5, free. Disc present. Anthers in 5 groups of 3, alternating with tooth-like staminodes, sessile at the apex of an androgynophore. Ovary of 5 fused carpels; ovules c. 4 per carpel. Style short, slender, capitate, becoming divided. Fruit of 5 fused carpels, loculicidally dehiscent.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Kleinhovia world distribution map, present in Australia, China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38746-1
WFO ID wfo-4000020066
COL ID 58HB
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INPN ID 446036
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Synonyms

Kleinhovia

Lower taxons

Kleinhovia hospita
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