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Phytolaccaceae - Rivinoideae - *Rivina L.

Description:

  • Soft herbs, sometimes suffrutescent and woody at base; stems erect or straggling
  • Leaves elliptic to ovate, with long petioles
  • Inflorescences racemes, terminal and axillary, suberect, many-flowered
  • Flowers bisexual, regular
  • Tepals 4, ± free, subequal, oblong-elliptic, rounded or acute at apex, erect or spreading in fruit
  • Stamens 4; filaments free; anthers dorsifixed, linear
  • Ovary ± subglobose, ± compressed laterally, unicarpellate; style short but distinct, curved; stigma capitate
  • Fruit a berry, globose, orange, red or purple, juicy; pericarp thin, adherent to seed
  • Seed 1, discoidal; testa crustaceous, black, often pubescent
  • x = 9 (high polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • *Rivina L.
    • Linnaeus: 121 (1753)
    • Linnaeus: 57 (1754)
    • Moquin-Tandon: 10 (1849)
    • Hooker: 80 (1880)
    • Heimerl: 8 (1889)
    • Walter: 101 (1909)
    • Heimerl: 147 (1934)
    • Nowicke: 332 (1968)
    • Polhill: 6 (1971)
    • Hewson: 4 (1984)
    • Stannard: 169 (1988)
    • Rohwer: 512 (1993)
    • Thulin: 126 (1993)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Monotypic: *Rivina humilis L., native to tropical and subtropical America and introduced into the Old World
  • Southern Africa: A garden weed of scattered distribution, mainly in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

References:

  • HEIMERL, A. 1889. Phytolaccaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3,1b
  • HEIMERL, A. 1934. Phytolaccaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, edn 2,16c
  • HEWSON, H.J. 1984. Phytolaccaceae. Flora of Australia 4
  • HOOKER, J.D. 1880. Phytolaccaceae. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera plantarum 3,1. Lovell Reeve & Co., London
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1753. Species plantarum, edn 1. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1754. Genera plantarum, edn 5. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • MOQUIN-TANDON, C.H.B.A. 1849. Phytolaccaceae. In A.P. de Candolle, Prodromus 13,2. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • NOWICKE, J.W. 1968. Palynotaxonomic study of the Phytolaccaceae. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 55, 3
  • POLHILL, R.M. 1971. Flora tropical East Africa. Phytolaccaceae
  • ROHWER, J.G. 1993. Phytolaccaceae. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich, The families and genera of vascular plants - dicotyledons 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
  • STANNARD, B.L. 1988. Phytolaccaceae. Flora zambesiaca 9,1
  • THULIN, M. 1993. Phytolaccaceae. Flora of Somalia 1
  • WALTER, H. 1909. Phytolaccaceae. Das Pflanzenreich 4, 83 (Heft 39)

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