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Campanulaceae - Gunillaea Thulin

Description:

  • Annual herbs
  • Leaves alternate, sessile, flat
  • Inflorescences ± frondose monochasia
  • Flowers ± regular, bisexual, protandrous
  • Calyx lobes (3)4 or 5, accrescent
  • Corolla campanulate, epigynous, (3)4- or 5-lobed
  • Stamens (3)4 or 5, free; filament bases almost linear to broadly winged, ciliate or glabrous
  • Ovary inferior, 2-locular; ovules many; style shorter than corolla, 2-lobed, upper part with pollen-collecting hairs, lower part glabrous or hairy; 2 glands sometimes present at base of style lobes
  • Capsule thin-walled, indehiscent
  • Seeds many; testa sulcate, often with hair-like projections
  • x = 9 (1 report)

Nomenclature:

  • Gunillaea Thulin
    • Thulin: 166 (1974)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 2, Africa and Madagascar
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Gunillaea rhodesica (Adamson) Thulin, N Namibia and Botswana

References:

  • THULIN, M. 1974. Gunillaea and Namacodon. Two new genera of Campanulaceae in Africa. Botaniska Notiser 127