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Campanulaceae - Namacodon Thulin

Description:

  • Erect shrublets, much branched from base
  • Leaves alternate, sessile, flat, lanceolate, margin slightly revolute
  • Flowers terminal, solitary; pedicel elongating in fruit, protandrous
  • Calyx: tube linear or tapering at each end, with 3 longitudinal furrows, glabrous; lobes 5, linear, acute, entire, glabrous
  • Corolla campanulate, epigynous, blue, lobes 5, united almost halfway
  • Stamens 5, free, filament bases ciliate-pubescent; anther connective with apical appendage
  • Ovary inferior, 3-locular, ovules many; style shorter than corolla, with pollen-collecting hairs, style lobes 3
  • Capsule elongated, cylindrical-fusiform, dehiscing septicidally by 3 longitudinal splits
  • Seeds many, broadly elliptic, strongly compressed, almost smooth, brown, glossy

Nomenclature:

  • Namacodon Thulin
    • Thulin: 173 (1974)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Namacodon schinzianum (Markgr.) Thulin, mountains in central Namibia

References:

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