e-Key v3 - Coleotrype
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Commelinaceae - Commelinoideae - Tradescantieae - Coleotrype C.B.Clarke

Description :

  • Perennial herbs
  • Leaves spirally arranged, sheathing at base
  • Inflorescence axillary, sessile, contracted cymes perforating base of leaf sheaths
  • Flower regular to slightly irregular
  • Sepals free or fused basally, equal
  • Petals fused, tubular, limb 3-lobed
  • Stamens 6, equal or unequal, arising from near throat of corolla tube; filaments usually bearded with long moniliform hairs
  • Ovary 3- locular, 1 or 2 superposed ovules in each locule
  • Fruit a loculicidal capsule
  • Seeds 1 or 2 per locule; hilum linear; embryotega lateral
  • x = 9

Nomenclature:

  • Coleotrype C.B.Clarke
    • Clarke: 120 (1881)
    • Clarke: 13 (1897)
    • Obermeyer & Faden: 49 (1985)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species 9, Africa and Madagascar
  • Southern Africa : Species 1: Coleotrype natalensis C.B.Clarke, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

References:

  • CLARKE, C.B. 1881. Coleotrype . In A.L.P.P. de Candolle & A.C.P. de Candolle, Monographiae phanerogamarum 3. Masson, Paris
  • CLARKE, C.B. 1897. Commelinaceae . Flora capensis 7
  • OBERMEYER, A.A. & FADEN, R.B. 1985. Commelinaceae . Flora of southern Africa 4