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Stapfiella Gilg

Genus

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Passifloraceae

Characteristics

Medium sized, frequently glandular, shrubs with ± narrowly elliptic leaves and ± numerous small (less than 1 cm. long) flowers in axillary and terminal panicles.. Calyx connate for less than half its length, bearing within 5 large (? glandular) tubercles.. Petals eligulate, inserted at the opening of the calyx-tube.. Filaments terete, adnate to calyx-tube for ± 0.25 mm.. Stigmas fringed. Ovule solitary and basal.. Capsule ± ellipsoid, 4–5 mm. long, dehiscing septicidally from the apex downwards; beak less than 0.5 mm. long.. Seed solitary, straight, narrowly obovoid, filling capsule, longitudinally striate-submuricate.
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Capsule ellipsoid or clavate, shortly rostrate, dehiscing septicidally into 3 valves from the apex downwards.
Leaves petiolate, usually elliptic and serrate at the margin, frequently glandular-punctate; stipules 0.
Petals eligulate, white, whitish or nearly translucent, inserted at the mouth of the calyx-tube.
Ovary 1-locular, 1-ovulate, the ovule basal; stigmas fringed.
Filaments filiform, inserted at the mouth of the calyx-tube.
Seed obovoid, straight, longitudinally striate-reticulate.
Calyx connate below the middle, with 5 tubercles within.
Flowers in terminal and axillary panicles or racemes.
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:16437-1
WFO ID wfo-4000036288
COL ID 7LXY
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Synonyms

Stapfiella

Lower taxons

Stapfiella muricata Stapfiella lucida Stapfiella ulugurica Stapfiella usambarica Stapfiella claoxyloides Stapfiella zambesiensis
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