WorldFloraDB - Peracarpa

Characteristics

Prostrate, creeping herb; stem terete, rooting at the nodes. Leaves spiral. Flowers 5-merous, actinomorphous, solitary, axillary, sometimes terminal. Sepals free, erect. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed. Disk fleshy, semiglobose, 3-sulcate. Stamens 5, free from the corolla. Ovary 3-locular; ovules ∞; style simple; stigma 3(-4)fid. Capsule pyriform, pendulous, with a thin pellucid wall, lengthwise nerved, not dehiscent, pericarp swollen above the oblong seeds.

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Plants perennial. Rhizomes elongate, with scales and buds. Leaves alternate. Flowers usually solitary, axillary, pedicellate. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla funnelform-campanulate, 5-lobed to middle or slightly beyond. Stamens 5, free from corolla; filaments ciliate. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; style villous above; stigma 3-lobed, lobes recurved. Fruit a 2-or 3-locular irregularly dehiscent capsule. Seeds relatively few, ellipsoid, large, smooth.

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Growth form	herb
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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:5780-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000028694
COL ID	8W28H
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Wikipedia (EN)	Link
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Synonyms

Peracarpa

Lower taxons

Peracarpa carnosa

WorldFloraDB 2024

Peracarpa Hook.F. & Thomson

Genus

Angiosperms > Asterales > Campanulaceae