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
Seeds without albumen. =216. Acanthaceae.=
634. (626.) Stamens 5. 635
Stamens 8-30. 639
635. Style (or styles) stigmatose beneath the thickened and sometimes
2-lobed apex. Corolla with contorted aestivation. =200. Apocynaceae.=
Style (or styles) stigmatose at the apex or between the apical lobes.
636
636. Leaves opposite or whorled, stipulate or connected by transverse
lines or ridges. Shrubs or trees. =198. Loganiaceae.=
Leaves alternate. 637
637. Ovules erect. Corolla lobed or nearly entire, usually folded in
bud. =202. Convolvulaceae.=
Ovules pendulous. Styles or stigmas 2. Corolla lobed, but imbricate in
bud, or deeply divided. Shrubs or trees. 638
638. Leaves stipulate. Flowers in axillary cymes or panicles. Fruit a
drupe. _Dichapetalum_, =121. Dichapetalaceae=.
Leaves exstipulate. Flowers in terminal spikes or heads. Fruit a
capsule. _Lonchostoma_, =100. Bruniaceae=.
639. Stamens 8. Style 1. Flowers hermaphrodite. _Salaxis_, =189.
Ericaceae=.
Stamens 10-30. Styles 2. Flowers unisexual or polygamous. _Euclea_,
=195. Ebenaceae=.
640. (621.) Fertile stamens 1-4. 641
Fertile stamens 5-16. 658
641. Flowers more or less irregular. 642
Flowers regular. 652
642. Leaves opposite or whorled. 643
Leaves alternate, at least the upper ones. 648
643. Leaves provided with stipules or connected at their base by
transverse lines or ridges. Shrubs or trees. =198. Loganiaceae.=
Leaves rarely with stipules or transverse lines or ridges at their
base, and then herbs or undershrubs. 644
644. Seeds with distinctly developed albumen. 645
Seeds with very scanty albumen or without any. 646
645. Seeds with funicles provided with a wart-like outgrowth. Placentas
remaining attached to the beaked and recurved valves of the capsule.
Disc not distinctly developed. Calyx deeply divided. Corolla-lobes 5,
with descending aestivation. Anther-halves not confluent. Stigma lobed.
Flowers in spikes. =216. Acanthaceae.=
Seeds without an outgrowth from the funicle or without a funicle.
Placentas usually separating from the valves of the capsule. Disc more
or less distinctly developed. =208. Scrophulariaceae.=
646. Seeds with scanty albumen. Plants with glandular hairs. Stamens 4.
=210. Pedaliaceae.=
Seeds without albumen. 647
647. Seeds borne on a large hook-like outgrowth of the funicle, rarely
on a small cushion-shaped one, and then herbs. Fruit a capsule, the
valves bearing the split dissepiment. Ovules usually few. Leaves
simple. =216. Acanthaceae.=
Seeds not on a hook-like outgrowth of the funicle, more or less
distinctly winged or marginate. Fruit a capsule, the valves usually
separating from the more or less dilated dissepiment, or a nut or
berry. Ovules numerous. Stamens 4. Leaves usually compound. Shrubs or
trees. =209. Bignoniaceae.=
648 (642.) Corolla with valvate or folded aestivation. Partition of the
ovary usually placed obliquely to the median plane of the flower. =207.
Solanaceae.=
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