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Apocynaceae - Asclepiadoideae - Asclepiadeae - Fanninia Harv.

Description:

  • Perennial herbs with tuberous rootstock
  • Leaves shortly petiolate or subsessile, lanceolate, ellliptic, or oblong, pubescent
  • Flowers in a few-flowered, terminal umbel, white with purple corona lobes
  • Sepals with scales in sinuses, pilose
  • Corolla lobed nearly to base; lobes oblong-elliptic, pilose, showy
  • Corona arising from staminal column, appearing stipitate, of 5 conspicuous lobes, three-quarters the length of corolla lobes, linear-oblong, slightly emarginate at apex, with distinct midrib and 2 erect, acute lobules from near base
  • Anthers 2-locular, united to style with fringed, membranous appendages
  • Pollinia pendulous
  • Follicles not known

Nomenclature:

  • Fanninia Harv.
    • Harvey: 235 (1868)
    • Brown: 662 (1907)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Fanninia caloglossa Harv., KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape near East London

References:

  • BROWN, N.E. 1907. Asclepiadeae. Flora capensis 4,1
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1868. The genera of South African plants edn 2. Juta, Cape Town