Leaves
crowded at ends of branches, petiolate, pinnate; leaflets ovate, acuminate, setose on margins
Flowers
bisexual or male, in compound umbels; involucres of a few bracts
Calyx
with small teeth
Petals
obovate, with long, inflexed apex, keeled on face
Stamens
longer than petals; filaments terete; anthers oblong
Male flowers
with disc cushion-shaped and rudimentary styles
Bisexual flowers
with disc slightly concave; ovary obovate; styles terete, ± half as long as stamens
Fruit
flattened, obovate in outline, ribbed, winged; mericarps convex on back, with 3 prominent, acute veins, winged on margin, flat on face, with narrow, apical channel; oil ducts inconspicuous; carpophore bipartite
Seeds
planoconvex
Nomenclature:
Steganotaenia
Hochst.
Hochstetter: 4 (1844)
Norman: 514 (1934)
Schreiber: 8 (1967)
Cannon: 617 (1978)
Burtt: 249 (1991)
Pimenov & Leonov: 108 (1993)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species 2, Africa
Southern Africa
: Species 1:
Steganotaenia araliacea
Hochst., northern parts of Namibia and Botswana, Northern Province and Mpumalanga
References:
BURTT, B.L. 1991.
Umbelliferae
of southern Africa: an introduction and annotated checklist.
Edinburgh Journal of Botany
48
NORMAN, C. 1934.
Peucedanum
and
Steganotaenia
in Tropical Africa.
Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany
49
PIMENOV, M.G. & LEONOV, M.V. 1993.
The genera of the
Umbelliferae
. A nomenclator
. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
SCHREIBER, A. 1967.
Apiaceae
.
Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika
103
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