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Rubiaceae - Rubioideae - Hedyotideae - Agathisanthemum Klotzsch

Description:

  • Perennial herbs or subshrubs; stems simple or sparsely branched
  • Leaves sessile or subsessile, ovate-oblong to narrowly lanceolate, mucronate, with margin revolute; stipule sheath produced into a 3-15-fimbriate lobe
  • Flowers heterostylous; in terminal, many-flowered cymes or corymbs or capitate clusters; bracteate
  • Calyx 4-lobed to halfway or more, lobes lanceolate to ovate-triangular, keeled
  • Corolla 4-lobed, white; lobes minutely papillose on inner face; tube densely bearded within
  • Stamens arising at sinuses of corolla; filaments glabrous; anthers dorsifixed
  • Disc farinose or very shortly pubescent
  • Ovary 2-locular, with many ovules in each locule on shortly stalked, peltate placentas; style usually undivided; stigma lobes subglobose or ovoid
  • Fruit a shortly pointed capsule, with loculicidal and septicidal dehiscence
  • Seeds many, angular
  • x = 9 (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Agathisanthemum Klotzsch
    • Klotzsch: 294 (1862)
    • Bremekamp: 152 (1952)
    • Verdcourt 254 (1976)
    • Verdcourt: 107 (1989)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 6, tropical Africa, Comoro Islands
  • Southern Africa: Species 3, Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BREMEKAMP. C.E.B. 1952. The African Oldenlandieae s.l. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, afdeling Natuurkunde, sect. 2. 48, 2
  • KLOTZSCH, J.F. 1862. Caprifolia Endlicher (Rubiaceae). In W.C.H. Peters, Naturwissenschafliche Reise nach Mossambique.... Botanik. Vol. 1
  • VERDCOURT, B. 1976. Flora of tropical East Africa. Rubiaceae (part 1)
  • VERDCOURT, B. 1989. Rubiaceae. Flora zambesiaca 5,1