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Krauseola Pax & K.Hoffm.

Genus

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Caryophyllaceae

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herbs. Stems approximately erect, branched. Leaves opposite (often with the false appearance of being in whorls), obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, entire, with scarious stipules. Flowers several to numerous, in rather compact to loose cymes. Sepals 9–12, spirally arranged, imbricate. Petals 5–8, hyaline-membranaceous, much shorter than the sepals. Fertile stamens 5–8, alternating with the petals. Ovary with numerous ovules; style simple below with 5 stigmatic arms. Capsule 5-valved, with numerous seeds.
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Leaves opposite but usually arranged in false whorls, subsessile, obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, entire; stipules scarious.
Annual or perennial herbs with a sparse indumentum of branched hairs; stems erect or diffuse.
Ovary with numerous ovules; style with 5 stigmatic arms.
Petals 5–8, hyaline, much shorter than the sepals.
Flowers several-? in loose or compact cymes.
Sepals 9–13, spirally arranged, imbricate.
Stamens 5–8, alternating with the petals.
Capsule 5-valved.
Seeds numerous.
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:6325-1
WFO ID wfo-4000020221
COL ID 594M
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Krauseola

Lower taxons

Krauseola mosambicina Krauseola gillettii
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