e-Key v3 - Theilera
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Campanulaceae - Theilera E.Phillips

Description :

  • Shrublets with lax, slender branches
  • Leaves alternate, fascicled, linear, erect or recurved
  • Flowers axillary, solitary, sessile
  • Calyx much shorter than corolla tube, 5-partite, glabrous; lobes linear
  • Corolla 5-lobed, glabrous; tube cylindric; lobes oblong or ovate-oblong, shorter than tube
  • Stamens 5, free from corolla, included; filaments thread-like, longer than anthers, scantily pilose; anthers 2-thecous, linear
  • Ovary inferior, 3(4)-locular, with many ovules in each locule, on basal placentas; style terete, exserted, glabrous; stigma club-shaped, with 3 glandular lobes
  • Fruit a capsule opening by terminal valves

Nomenclature:

  • Theilera E.Phillips
    • Phillips: 369 (1932)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Species 1: Theilera guthriei (L.Bolus) E.Phillips, Western and Eastern Cape

References:

  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1932. Description of three new South African plants. Bothalia 2