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Ranunculaceae - Anemone L.

Description:

  • Perennial herbs, rarely shrublets; flowering stems usually with 1-5 whorls of (2)3(4) partly fused leaves
  • Leaves radical, alternate, much dissected or lobed, rarely entire
  • Flowers bisexual, in definite, di- or trichasial, umbelliform inflorescences or solitary
  • Sepals 4-20, petaloid, imbricate, deciduous
  • Petals 0
  • Stamens many
  • Carpels many, each with 1 pendulous ovule
  • Fruitlets clustered achenes, with or without persistent styles
  • x = 7, 8 (5, 13, 17) (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Anemone L.
    • Linnaeus: 532 (1753)
    • Linnaeus: 241 (1754)
    • Harvey: 3 (1860)
    • Killick: 258 (1977)
    • Tamura: 576 (1993)
    • Thulin: 22 (1993)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 120, cosmopolitan
  • Southern Africa: Species 3, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Northern, Western and Eastern Cape

References:

  • HARVEY, W.H. 1860. Ranunculaceae. Flora capensis 1
  • KILLICK, D.J.B. 1977. The correct name for Anemone capensis. Bothalia 12
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1753. Species plantarum, edn 1. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1754. Genera plantarum, edn 5. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • TAMURA, M. 1993. Ranunculaceae. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich, The families and genera of vascular plants - dicotyledons 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
  • THULIN, M. 1993. Ranunculaceae. Flora of Somalia 1

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