e-Key v3 - Thamnosma
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Rutaceae - Thamnosma Torr. & Frem.

Description :

  • Undershrubs or shrubs, leafy or nearly leafless, with immersed glands
  • Leaves alternate, (3)5-foliolate; leaflets linear or cuneate, entire or rarely slightly lobed at apex
  • Flowers pedicelled, in small, terminal racemes
  • Calyx of 4 small sepals or 4-lobed
  • Petals 4, sessile, suborbicular, entire, imbricate
  • Disc cupular, crenate or lobed
  • Stamens 8, inserted at base of disc
  • Ovary sessile or stalked, 2-lobed, 2-locular, with several ovules in each locule, with immersed glands; style simple; stigma capitate
  • Fruit a 2-lobed capsule, with 4-6 seeds
  • x = 9 (10) (1 report each)

Nomenclature:

  • Thamnosma Torr. & Frem.
    • Torrey & Frémont: 313 (1845)
    • Mendonça: 183 (1963)
    • Schreiber: 3 (1973)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species ± 6, southwestern and North America, Sokotra
  • Southern Africa : Species 2, Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape

References:

  • MENDONÇA, F.A. 1963. 40. Rutaceae . Flora zambesiaca 2,1
  • SCHREIBER, A. 1973. Rutaceae . Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 68
  • TORREY, J. & FRÉMONT, J.C. 1845. In J.C. Frémont, Report of the expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 . Senate of the USA, Washington