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Knowltonia Salisb.

Genus

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae

Characteristics

Perennial herbs with compound leaves and multi-flowered inflorescences. An involucre or reduced leaves at the inflorescence branches. Flowers regular. Tepals more or less petaloid, about 15 but variable in number, the outer often somewhat smaller and slightly sepaloid, none with nectariferous pits. Stamens indefinite in number. Carpels indefinite in number, uniovulate, with glabrous deciduous styles. Fruits composed of fleshy drupelets.
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Perennial herbs with 3-foliolate to biternate leaves and many-flowered cymes or compoundly umbellate inflorescences on long scapes with an involucre of reduced leaves at the branching of the inflorescence.
Tepals more or less petaloid, about 15 but variable in number, the outer often somewhat smaller and slightly sepaloid, without nectariferous pits.
Carpels indefinite in number, 1-ovulate, with glabrous deciduous styles.
Stamens indefinite in number.
Fruit of fleshy drupelets.
Flowers actinomorphic.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:33170-1
WFO ID wfo-4000020098
COL ID 62VZ4
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Synonyms

Oreithales Knowltonia Barneoudia

Lower taxons

Knowltonia anemonoides Knowltonia whytei Knowltonia capensis Knowltonia cordata Knowltonia filia Knowltonia bracteata Knowltonia transvaalensis Knowltonia brevistylis Knowltonia moorei Knowltonia balliana Knowltonia mexicana Knowltonia sellowii Knowltonia chilensis Knowltonia hootae Knowltonia hepaticifolia Knowltonia assisbrasiliana Knowltonia crassifolia Knowltonia major Knowltonia fanninii Knowltonia tenuifolia Knowltonia helleborifolia Knowltonia whyteana Knowltonia peruviana Knowltonia caffra Knowltonia integrifolia Knowltonia vesicatoria
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