The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerogramsThonner, Franz
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The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms
Thonner, Franz
Angiosperms -- Africa; Plants -- Africa
Fruit-valves without an appendage, but the style sometimes appendaged. 7
4. Fruit-valves with a basal appendage. Seeds margined. Style
appendaged at the base. Petals violet. Lateral sepals gibbous at the
base. Herbs covered with glandular tubercles.--Species 1. North Africa.
=Lonchophora= Dur.
Fruit-valves with an apical appendage. Seeds not margined. Petals
white, yellow, or red. Plants without glandular tubercles. 5
5. Fruit-valves with a forked appendage. Petals pink. Leaves linear,
entire. Undershrubs.--Species 1. Canary Islands. =Parolinia= Webb
Fruit-valves with an entire appendage. 6
6. Fruit-valves with a blunt appendage below the apex. Petals
red. Leaves oblong or ovate, sinuate or toothed. Undershrubs with
star-shaped hairs.--Species 5. East Africa. =Diceratella= Boiss.
Fruit-valves with a pointed appendage at the apex. Petals white or
yellow. Leaves linear. Herbs with 2-cleft hairs.--Species 1. North
Africa. =Notoceras= R. Br.
7. Lateral glands alone present, one on each side of the lateral
stamens. Stigmatic lobes usually long and erect, but sometimes united. 8
Lateral and median (anterior and posterior) glands present, sometimes
blended into a ring. Stigmatic lobes usually short and spreading or
indistinctly developed. 14
8. Plants covered with glandular tubercles. Style with a dorsal
gibbosity; stigma not sharply limited. Seeds flat; radicle
accumbent.--Species 15. North, East, and South Africa. Some are used as
ornamental plants or in medicine. “Stock.” =Matthiola= R. Br.
Plants without glandular tubercles. Stigma more or less sharply limited
at the base.
9. Longer filaments united to the top. Sepals connivent. Petals linear,
white or pink. Seeds minute, in two rows. Bracts leaf-like. Leaves
divided into narrow segments.--Species 1. North-east Africa (Egypt).
=Leptaleum= DC.
Longer filaments free or slightly cohering. 10
10. Seeds thick; radicle incumbent. Fruit-valves more or less convex.
Petals white or pink.--Species 10. North Africa. Some are used as
ornamental plants. (Including _Maresia_ Pomel). =Malcolmia= R. Br.
Seeds flat; radicle accumbent. 11
11. Fruit-valves convex, with a faint middle-nerve, constricted
between the seeds. Sepals saccate at the base. Petals pink. Hairs
stellate.--Species 3. North Africa. (Under _Farsetia_ Desv. or
_Malcolmia_ R. Br.). =Eremobium= Boiss.
Fruit-valves flat, sometimes keeled. 12
12. Fruit-valves projecting inwards between the seeds, thick, obtusely
angled. Stigma acutely 2-lobed. Sepals erect. Petals pink.--Species 3.
North and East Africa. =Morettia= DC.
Fruit-valves not projecting between the seeds. 13
13. Petals purple, narrow. Sepals erect, not saccate. Stigma acutely
2-lobed. Seeds winged. Leaves narrow. Hairs 2-cleft.--Species 13. East
and North Africa. Some are used medicinally. =Farsetia= Desv.
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