Pterygiella Oliv.

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Orobanchaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, or shrubs, annual or perennial, erect, sometimes with long rhizomes. Stems basally woody, narrowly 4-winged or terete and wingless. Leaves opposite, decussate, sessile or subsessile; leaf blade mostly lanceolate, margin entire or serrate. Racemes terminal; bracts foliaceous. Flowers opposite, few. Pedicel short. Bracteoles 2, at pedicel apex. Calyx tube broadly campanulate, 5-veined, somewhat 2-lipped; lobes 5, 2 upper lobes shorter than other lobes, margin entire. Corolla 2-lipped, slightly longer than calyx; tube funnelform; lower lip usually nearly as long as upper, 3-lobed, lobes subequal, with 2 raised folds; upper lip 2-lobed, lobes arched, recurved at margin. Stamens didynamous; filaments inserted below middle of corolla tube; anthers 2-loculed, dorsifixed; anther locules parallel, longitudinally dehiscent, densely white villous. Ovary usually ovoid, 2-loculed, densely hirsute. Style densely villous; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule black-brown. Seeds numerous, small; seed coat scrobiculate-reticulate or seed enclosed in large bladdery loose hyaline reticulated appendage.
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Distribution

Pterygiella world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37953-1
WFO ID wfo-4000032051
COL ID 74XR
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Synonyms

Pterygiella Xizangia

Lower taxons

Pterygiella cylindrica Pterygiella bartschioides Pterygiella nigrescens Pterygiella duclouxii Pterygiella tenuisecta Pterygiella muliensis Pterygiella parishii