e-Key v3 - Basananthe
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Passifloraceae - Basananthe Peyr.

Description :

  • Herbs, annual or perennial, or small climbers, rarely shrubs, with or without tendrils
  • Leaves petioled or subsessile, entire, not lobed, bilobed, or digitately 3-5-lobed; stipules small or sometimes false stipules from supra-axillary bud
  • Flowers bisexual or sometimes functionally unisexual, 1-3 together, cymose, sessile or peduncled; bracts and bracteoles small, often forming an involucre
  • Sepals 5(6)
  • Petals 0 or 1 or 2(4) or 5(6), usually shorter than sepals, oblong to lanceolate
  • Corona double, outer fimbriate above, inner cup-like, membranous
  • Stamens 5(6-9) arising from within upper half of corona; anthers basifixed, sometimes sagittate
  • Ovary sessile, with 3-few ovules on 3(4) parietal placentas; styles 3(4), free or partially united; stigmas globose
  • Fruit a 3(4)-valved capsule
  • Seeds 1-few, somewhat compressed, ellipsoid or reniform, arillate

Nomenclature:

  • Basananthe Peyr.
    • Peyritsch: 101 (1859)
    • De Wilde: 327 (1973)
    • De Wilde: 120 (1976)
  • Tryphostemma Harv.
    • Harvey: 32, t. 51 (1859)
    • Harvey: 499 (1862)
    • Schreiber: 1 (1968)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species 25, Africa
  • Southern Africa : Species 5, Namibia, Northern Province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • DE WILDE, W.J.J.O. 1973. Revision of Basananthe , formerly Tryphostemma ( Passifloraceae ). Blumea 21
  • DE WILDE, W.J.J.O. 1976. Passifloraceae . Flora of southern Africa 22
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1859. Thesaurus capensis 1. Hodges, Smith & Co., Dublin
  • HARVEY, W.H., 1862. Passifloreae . Flora capensis 2
  • PEYRITSCH, J.J. 1859. Basananthe . Botanische Zeitung (Berlin) 17
  • SCHREIBER, A.1968. Passifloraceae . Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika