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Capparaceae - Bachmannia Pax

Description:

  • Shrubs or small trees
  • Leaves alternate, digitately (1)3- or 4(5)-foliolate; leaflets elliptic or obovate, large, coriaceous
  • Inflorescence 2-6-flowered, abbreviated racemes on old wood
  • Calyx: tube campanulate, intruse at base; lobes 4 or 5, oblong, mucronate, veined; disc 0
  • Petals 0
  • Stamens 13-18, on a short androphore; filaments terete; anthers oblong
  • Ovary on a long, terete gynophore, ellipsoid, with ± 7 ovules; style 0; stigma capitate
  • Fruit subglobose

Nomenclature:

  • Bachmannia Pax
    • Pax: 177 (1897)
    • Gilg: 204 (1902)
    • Gilg & Gilg-Benedict: 175 (1915)
    • Pax & Hoffmann: 171 (1936)
    • Phillips: 355 (1951)
    • Killick: 142 (1970)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 1, Mozambique and southern Africa: Bachmannia woodii (Oliv.) Gilg
  • Southern Africa: KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

References:

  • GILG, E.F. 1902. Capparidaceae africanae. Botanische Jahrbücher 33
  • GILG, E.F. & GILG-BENEDICT, C.S. 1915. Monographische Zusammenstellung sämtlicher Capparidaceae des tropischen und subtropischen Afrika. Botanische Jahrbücher 53
  • KILLICK, D.J.B. 1970. Capparaceae (in part). Flora of southern Africa 13
  • PAX, F. 1897. Capparidaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, Nachträge III,2
  • PAX, F. & HOFFMANN, K. 1936. Capparidaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, edn 2, 17b
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants, edn 2. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa 25. Government Printer, Pretoria

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