e-Key v3 - Siphocodon
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Campanulaceae - Siphocodon Turcz.

Description :

  • Slender undershrubs with wiry branches
  • Leaves sparse, subulate, scale-like
  • Flowers in few-flowered racemes or racemose panicles
  • Calyx shorter than corolla tube, 5-lobed, glabrous; tube shallowly saucer-shaped; lobes lanceolate
  • Corolla 5-lobed, glabrous; tube cylindric; lobes oblong or ovate-lanceolate, shorter than tube
  • Stamens 5, arising high in corolla tube, included; filaments free, slightly shorter than anthers; anthers 2-thecous, oblong
  • Ovary inferior, 2- or 3-locular, 2, 4 or 5 ovules in each locule; style terete, gradually thinner upwards; stigma of 3 lanceolate, glandular lobes
  • Fruit a capsule, crowned with persistent calyx, opening transversely and lid falling with portion of calyx

Nomenclature:

  • Siphocodon Turcz.
    • Turczaninow: 175 (1852)
    • Sonder: 596 (1865)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Species 2, Western Cape

References:

  • SONDER, W. 1865. Campanulaceae , Campanuleae . Flora capensis 3
  • TURCZANINOW, P.K.N.S. 1852. Siphocodon . Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes de Moscou 25