Lecanthus Wedd.

Genus

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae

Characteristics

Herbs annual or perennial, without stinging hairs. Stems succulent. Leaves opposite, petiolate; stipules deciduous, intrapetiolar, connate, membranous; leaf blade 3-veined, usually symmetric, margin serrate-dentate; cystoliths linear. Inflorescences solitary, axillary, often pedunculate, seated on a receptacle; receptacles at first broadly subcampanulate, soon expanded, of unisexual flowers (plants monoecious or dioecious); male and female inflorescences often separate or sometimes mixed in same receptacle, rarely male ones capitate or cymose without receptacle; involucral bracts in 1 or 2 whorled rows along margin of receptacle. Male flowers often obconic in bud; perianth lobes 4 or 5, slightly unequal, imbricate; stamens 4 or 5; filaments inflexed in bud; rudimentary ovary minute, inconspicuous. Female flowers: perianth lobes (3 or)4(or 5), often unequal, often corniculate below apex; staminodes small, scale-like, inflexed. Ovary straight; style absent; stigma penicillate, deciduous; ovule orthotropous. Achene straight, with crested or U-shaped appendix at apex or along dorsiventral edges, usually verrucose, invested by shorter persistent perianth. Seeds with little endosperm; cotyledons thick, elliptic.
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Female inflorescences larger, with many flowers on a flat, disk-shaped receptacle; flowers (3)4-merous, tepals ± markedly cucullate, ovary erect, stigma penicillate, staminodes present.
Male inflorescences usually small, ± bell-or cup-shaped, usually with less than 10 flowers; male flowers 4–5-merous, with a rudimentary ovary.
Inflorescences single in the leaf axils, unisexual, rarely bisexual, pedunculate; receptacles surrounded by fused bracts.
Annual or short lived perennial, monoecious or apparently dioecious herbs.
Stipules intrapetiolar, fused.
Leaves opposite, petiolate.
Achene ovoid, verrucose.
Cystoliths elongated.
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Images

Lecanthus unspecified picture

Distribution

Lecanthus world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40862-1
WFO ID wfo-4000020832
COL ID 5BNX
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Synonyms

Meniscogyne Lecanthus

Lower taxons

Lecanthus peduncularis Lecanthus pileoides Lecanthus petelotii