Acrosanthes

Acrosanthes
Systematics
	Eudicotyledons
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Midday flowers (Aizoaceae)
Subfamily :	Aizooideae
Genre :	Acrosanthes
Scientific name
	Acrosanthes
	Eckl. & Zeyh.

Acrosanthes is a plant kind from the family of aizoaceae (Aizoaceae).

description

The species of the genus Acrosanthes grow mat-forming or with outstretched long branches. Their internodes are woody at least at the base. The round to flat leaves are bare.

The individual flowers seem to appear laterally, but are terminal and are surmounted by one of the lower side branches. Your perigon is five-lobed, the lobes being shorter than the basal tube. The corners are white on the inside. There are eight to many stamens , which are usually arranged in groups. The middle ovary is incompletely separated into two chambers at the base by a low partition. The xerochastic capsule fruits with their parchment-like wall remain in the drying perigone. The flattened and kidney-shaped or circular seeds have a wrinkled seed coat .

Systematics and distribution

The genus Acrosanthes is common in the western districts of the South African province of Western Cape in winter rain areas with more than 400 millimeters of precipitation .

The first description was in 1837 by Christian Friedrich Ecklon and Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher . The genus Acrosanthes includes the following species:

Acrosanthes anceps (Thunb.) Sond.
Acrosanthes angustifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.
Acrosanthes humifusa (Thunb.) Sond.
Acrosanthes microphylla Adamson
Acrosanthes parviflora J.C. Manning & Goldblatt
Acrosanthes teretifolia Eckl. & Zeyh.

proof

literature

Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae AE . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41691-9 , pp. 25-26 .

Individual evidence

↑ Enumeratio plantarum Africae australis extratropicae . Hamburg 1837, p. 328, (online).
↑ Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae AE . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41691-9 , pp. 25-26 .
^ John Manning, Peter Goldblatt: Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region volume 1: The Core Cape Flora . In: Strelitzia . Volume 29, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria 2012, ISBN 978-1-919976-74-7 , pp. 791-792 ( online ).

[1] Enumeratio plantarum Africae australis extratropicae . Hamburg 1837, p. 328, (online).

[2] Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae AE . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41691-9 , pp. 25-26 .

[3] John Manning, Peter Goldblatt: Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region volume 1: The Core Cape Flora . In: Strelitzia . Volume 29, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria 2012, ISBN 978-1-919976-74-7 , pp. 791-792 ( online ).