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Rosaceae - Rosoideae - Sanguisorbeae - Agrimonia L.

Description:

  • Tall perennial herbs with oblique or creeping rootstock, generally glandular and fragrant; stems usually erect
  • Leaves alternate, imparipinnate with 7-13 unequal, incised-serrate, petiolate leaflets; stipules large, adnate to base of petiole, deeply toothed
  • Inflorescence very often a terminal, spike-like raceme; pedicels bracteate at base, bibracteolate in middle
  • Flowers bisexual, without an epicalyx, small
  • Calyx: tube turbinate, with many hooked bristles or with 5 teeth below calyx lobes, sometimes constricted at throat; lobes 5, triangular, imbricate, connivent in fruit
  • Petals 5, imbricate, orbicular to oblong, longer than calyx lobes, deciduous, yellow
  • Disc annular, glandular, lining mouth of calyx tube, with thickened margins, sometimes closing mouth of calyx tube
  • Stamens (5)10-20, free, uniseriate, inserted on yellowish disc
  • Gynoecium of 2, rarely 3, free, sessile carpels; ovules solitary in each carpel, pendulous; styles terete, exserted; stigmas slightly dilated, 2-lobed
  • Fruit of 1- or 2-seeded achenes, included in hardened, persistent calyx tube which is beset near apex with a crown of hooked prickles
  • x = 7 (high polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Agrimonia L.
    • Linnaeus: 446 (1753)
    • Linnaeus: 206 (1754)
    • Jussieu: 336 (1789)
    • Candolle: 587 (1825)
    • Endlicher: 1243 (1840)
    • Harvey: 290 (1862)
    • Hooker: 622 (1865)
    • Focke: 43 (1894)
    • Burtt Davy: 318 (1932)
    • Henderson & Anderson: 166 (1966)
    • Zohary: 13 (1972)
    • Mendes: 27 (1978)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 15, occurring in temperate regions and on tropical mountains of northern hemisphere, mainly in North America, but ± 9 species in Europe and Asia, 2 in tropical and southern Africa
  • Southern Africa: Species 2, Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Western and Eastern Cape

References:

  • BURTT DAVY, J. 1932. Rosaceae. A manual of the flowering plants and ferns of the Transvaal with Swaziland 2. Longmans, Green & Co., London
  • CANDOLLE, A.-P. DE. 1825. Rosaceae. Prodromus 2. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • ENDLICHER, S.L. 1840. Pomaceae-Rosaceae. Order AMYGDALEAE. Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita 2. Beck, Vienna
  • FOCKE, W.O. 1894. Rosaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 3,3
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1862. Rosaceae. Flora capensis 2
  • HENDERSON, M. & ANDERSON, J.G. 1966. Common weeds in South Africa. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 37
  • HOOKER, J.D. 1865. Rosaceae. In G. Bentham & J. D. Hooker, Genera plantarum 1. Lovell Reeve & Co., London
  • JUSSIEU, A.L. DE. 1789. Rosaceae, les Rosacées. Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita. Herissant & Barrois, Paris
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1753. Species plantarum, edn 1. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • LINNAEUS, C. 1754. Genera plantarum, edn 5. Laurentius Salvius, Stockholm
  • MENDES, E.J. 1978. Rosaceae. Flora zambesiaca 4
  • ZOHARY, M. 1972. Rosaceae. Flora Palaestina 2

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