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Montiniaceae - Montinia Thunb.

Description:

  • Shrubs or shrublets, sometimes small trees, with furrowed branches and distinct lenticels; plants dioecious
  • Leaves alternate, simple, entire, penninerved, shortly petiolate, ± glabrous, coriaceous, elliptic or lanceolate, deciduous; stipules 0
  • Flowers unisexual, regular, small
  • Male flowers in few-flowered, terminal corymbs; calyx tube expanded, shortly 4-lobed, persistent; petals 4, free, fleshy, rounded, imbricate, deciduous, white; stamens 4, inserted under margin of disc, alternating with petals; filaments linear, shorter than the oblong, extrorse anthers; disc basin-shaped, large, yellow-green; ovary 0 or rudimentary
  • Female flowers solitary or in groups of 2(3); calyx tube fusiform, adnate to ovary, very shortly 4-toothed; petals as in male; staminodes 0 or rudimentary; disc epigynous, somewhat fleshy, 4-angled; ovary inferior, 2-carpellate, imperfectly 2-locular, ellipsoid; placentas 2, axile, each placenta with up to 12 ovules in 2 longitudinal series; style short, thick, 2-branched from middle, each branch ending in a large, horseshoe-shaped stigma
  • Fruit a 1-locular, subwoody, ellipsoid capsule, crowned by persistent calyx lobes, disc and style, opening by 2 valves, with seeds on the 2 free-central, somewhat fleshy placentas
  • Seeds flat, winged, arranged on each placenta in 2 rows like rooftiles; testa pustulate; endosperm 0; embryo straight; cotyledons broadly oblong
  • x = 17

Nomenclature:

  • Montinia Thunb.
    • Thunberg: 108 (1777)
    • Jussieu: 318 (1789)
    • Smith: 14, t. 15 (1792)
    • Candolle: 35 (1828)
    • Harvey: 307 (1862)
    • Hooker: 794 (1867)
    • Engler: 223 (1928)
    • Adamson: 440 (1950)
    • Milne-Redhead: tt. 3541-3544 (1955)
    • Friedrich-Holzhammer: 1 (1967)
    • Mendes: 54 (1978)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa: Monotypic: Montinia caryophyllacea Thunb., SW Angola; Namibia, Botswana, Northern, Western and Eastern Cape

References:

  • ADAMSON, R.S. 1950. Saxifragaceae DC. In R.S. Adamson & T.M. Salter, Flora of the Cape Peninsula. Juta, Cape Town
  • CANDOLLE, A.-P. DE. 1828. Onagrarieae tribe Montinieae. Prodromus 3. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
  • ENGLER, A. 1928. Saxifragaceae subfamily Montinioideae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 2,18a
  • FRIEDRICH-HOLZHAMMER, M. 1967. Montiniaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 54
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1862. Saxifragaceae. Flora capensis 2
  • HOOKER, J.D. 1867. Onagrarieae. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera plantarum 1. Lovell Reeve & Co., London
  • JUSSIEU, A.L. DE. 1789. Onagrae, les Onagres. Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita. Herissant & Barrois, Paris
  • MENDES, E.J. 1978. Montiniaceae. Flora zambesiaca 4
  • MILNE-REDHEAD, E.W.B.H. 1955. Montiniaceae. In Hooker's Icones Plantarum, 5th series. Vol. 6,1
  • SMITH, J.E. 1792. Montina. Spicilegium Botanicum. Davis, London
  • THUNBERG, C.P. 1777. Montina. Physiographiska Saelskapets Handlingar 1