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
Leaflets 10-16. Flowers 5-merous. Petals with valvate aestivation.
Anthers 5, inserted at the rim of the nearly entire staminal
tube.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Quivisianthe= Baill.
24. Anthers inserted at the upper margin of the staminal tube or at the
top of its teeth. Disc ring-or cup-shaped. Style short, with a lobed
stigma. Leaflets opposite. (See 18.) =Ekebergia= Sparm.
Anthers inserted below the mouth of the staminal tube, included.
Leaflets usually alternate. 25
25. Petals united high up and adnate to the staminal tube, valvate
in bud. Ovary at first 4-5-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, later
1-celled.--Species 4. West Africa. =Turraeanthus= Baill.
Petals free, or united at the base only. 2
26. Ovary 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. (See 13.) =Guarea= L.
Ovary 4-5-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. (See 10.) =Carapa= Aubl.
SUBORDER MALPIGHIINEAE
FAMILY 119. MALPIGHIACEAE
Shrubs or undershrubs, with branched hairs, usually climbing. Leaves
undivided, usually stipulate. Flowers in racemose inflorescences,
bracteolate. Sepals 3-5, free or united at the base, mostly furnished
with glands on the outside. Petals 5, free, imbricate in bud, usually
clawed and toothed. Stamens usually 10, hypogynous. Filaments free
or united at the base. Anthers opening inwards by two longitudinal
slits. Ovary 2-3-celled, with 1 pendulous and inverted ovule in each
cell. Styles 1-3. Fruit usually separating into 3 mericarps. Seeds
exalbuminous.--Genera 16, species 80. Tropical and South Africa. (Plate
77.)
1. Fruiting receptacle flat. Mericarps not winged. Calyx without
glands. Petals clawed, almost entire. Stamens 10. Leaves stipulate.
Flowers in terminal racemes. 2
Fruiting receptacle pyramidal. Mericarps winged. 3
2. Fruit covered with short hairs, dehiscent. Petals equal. Anthers
glabrous. Ovary covered with short hairs. Styles free, long and thin,
with small stigmas. Leaves opposite.--Species 1. Madagascar. [Tribe
GALPHIMIEAE.] =Galphimia= Cav.
Fruit covered with long, soft, hairy, spine-shaped processes. Petals
unequal. Anthers hairy. Ovary clothed with long hairs. Styles
converging, rather short and thick, with oval reflexed stigmas. Leaves
alternate or subopposite.--Species 1. Madagascar. [Tribe TRICOMARIEAE.]
=Echinopteris= Juss.
3. Mericarps with a large dorsal wing, without a lateral wing. Petals
more or less distinctly clawed. [Tribe BANISTERIEAE.] 4
Mericarps with a large, sometimes divided, lateral wing and a small
dorsal wing, or without a dorsal wing. Stamens 10. [Tribe HIRAEEAE.] 10
4. Style 1. Ovary 3-celled, 3-lobed. Stamens 5, two only fertile.
Sepals with two large glands each. Flowers solitary, terminal. Leaves
mucronate.--Species 1. Madagascar. =Cottsia= Dubard & Dop
Styles 2-3. Stamens 10-15. 5
5. Styles 2, long. Ovary with 2 perfect and 1 rudimentary cell. Stamens
10. Petals with a long claw. Leaves usually alternate. 6
Styles 3. Ovary with 3 perfect cells. Corolla regular. Leaves usually
opposite. 7
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