e-Key v3 - Neoluederitzia
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Zygophyllaceae - Neoluederitzia Schinz

Description :

  • Shrubs
  • Stems erect to recurved; each node with a spine
  • Leaves fascicled at nodes, imparipinnate, 4- or 5-jugate; leaflets oblong to obovate
  • Flowers solitary, peduncled, arising from fascicles of leaves
  • Calyx with a shallow tube, 5-lobed; lobes longer than tube, tomentose
  • Petals 5, reflexed, cuneate, villous at base, dull yellow
  • Stamens 10; filaments with a villous appendage at base
  • Disc hyaline, urceolate, enclosing ovary
  • Ovary deeply 5-lobed, 5-locular with a single ovule in each locule, villous; style simple, stout, 5-angled; stigma simple
  • Fruit a capsule breaking into 5 mericarps
  • Seeds without endosperm

Nomenclature:

  • Neoluederitzia Schinz
    • Schinz: 190 (1894)
    • Engler: 173 (1931)
    • Phillips: 435 (1951)
    • Schreiber: 3 (1966)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Monotypic: Neoluederitzia sericeocarpa Schinz, in the southern part of Namibia

References:

  • ENGLER, H.G.A. 1931. Zygophyllaceae . Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edn 2, 19a
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25
  • SCHINZ, H. 1894. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Afrikanischen Flora ( Zygophyllaceae ). Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier 2
  • SCHREIBER, A. 1966. Zygophyllaceae . Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 65