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Malvaceae - Hibisceae - Kosteletzkya C.Presl

Description:

  • Annual or perennial herbs, erect, branching from base
  • Leaves simple, unlobed, ovate to linear, serrate
  • Flowers axillary, solitary
  • Epicalyx of 7-11 filiform to linear bracts
  • Calyx 5-lobed
  • Petals much longer than calyx, white sometimes tinged pink
  • Staminal tube bearing anthers ± throughout, truncate at apex
  • Gynoecium 5-locular with 1 ovule per locule; style branches as many as carpels, filiform; stigmas capitate
  • Fruit a 5-angled, depressed-globose, loculicidally dehiscent capsule
  • Seeds reniform, with dense brown hairs
  • x = 17 (1 report)

Nomenclature:

  • Kosteletzkya C.Presl
    • Presl: 130, t. 70 (1835)
    • Exell: 472 (1960)
    • Exell: 24 (1969)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 50, mostly tropical America
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Kosteletzkya buettneri Gürke, N Namibia (Okavango and Caprivi); riverbanks and swampy places

References:

  • EXELL, A.W. 1960. Malvaceae. Flora zambesiaca 1
  • EXELL, A.W. 1969. Malvaceae (in part). Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 82
  • PRESL, C.B. 1835. Reliquiae haenkeanae. 2. J.G. Calve, Prague

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