User:DavidAnstiss/Craterostigma
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| Craterostigma plantagineum, from Borakalalo Game Reserve, North West, South Africa | |
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Craterostigma is a genus of shrub-like flowering plants in the
Type species: Craterostigma plantagineum Hochst. Flora 1841: 669. (1841)
Linderniaceae/Scrophulariaceae
The word 'craterostigma' comes from two Greek words, krateros meaning cup-shaped and stigma, part of the female reproductive part of a flower.[1]
c Holst, Flora 24, 2. Teill: 668 1841,
fischer trop.subtrop. Pflanzenw. 81, 85-126 1992 rev
c. linearifolium Engle [2]
c hochst. flora 24, 668 1841
perennials, stems reduced or elongate. leaves in basal rosette or in pairs along the stem, entire
flowers few in the axils or bract-like leaves or crowded in small terminal heads or rarely solitary.
Calyx tubular, 5 lobed, lobes subequal, ribbed or winged, shorter than the tube. Petals tubular, 2 lipped, adaxial lip concave,
entire or notched; abaxil lip 3 lobed; lobes broad, subequal.
stamens 4; adaxial pair adnate to abaxial lip with a swollen appendage at the base of the filament; anther lobes divaricate.
ovary 2 locular; style elongate, often curved and persisting in fruit; stigma 2 lipped; capsule oblong, included with the sepals,
2 valved.
20 species: tropical and s Africa and Madagascar. Mostly herbs of wet places, some species such as c monroi S Moore, C. gracile Pilger and C.linearifolium Engler are frequently found submerged. his genus is very similar to Lindernia
There are fourteen other species of this genus in Africa, including one which extends to Arabia. [3]
Species[edit]
- Craterostigma alatum Hepper
- Craterostigma hirsutum S.Moore
- Craterostigma lanceolatum (Engl.) Skan
- Craterostigma longicarpum Hepper
- Craterostigma plantagineum Hochst.
- Craterostigma pumila Hochst. [4]
- Craterostigma purpureum Lebrun & Touss.
- Craterostigma smithii S.Moore
- Craterostigma wilmsii Engl.
Note: only species listed as 'Accepted' by The Plant List.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ Gwithie Kirby Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana (2013), p. 325, at Google Books
- ^ C.D.K. Cook, B.J. Gut, E.M. Rix and J. Schneller Water Plants of the World: A Manual for the Identification of the Genera of freshwater macrophytes (1974), p. 515, at Google Books
- ^ Napier, E. (1933). "NOTES ON WILD FLOWERS" (PDF). biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
- ^ "Craterostigma pumila". ngkenya.com. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ "DavidAnstiss/Craterostigma". The Plant List. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 December 2017. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
Other sources[edit]
- Fischer, E. et al. 2013. The phylogeny of Linderniaceae - The new genus Linderniella, and new combinations within Bonnaya, Craterostigma, Lindernia, Micranthemum, Torenia and Vandellia. (Willdenowia) 43:221-223.
External links[edit]
Media related to Craterostigma at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to DavidAnstiss/Craterostigma at Wikispecies