Agelaea
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Agelaea lamarckii , illustration |
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Agelaea is a plant kind from the family of connaraceae .
description
Agelaea are lianas . Their leaves are unpaired pinnate to almost palmate and usually consist of three, occasionally up to five leaflets . The inflorescence is a panicle . The mostly heterotristylen or heterodistylen flowers are hermaphroditic and five-fold.
The petals and stamens are bare, the stylus often hairy. There are five carpels , the fruits are weak or unstalked follicles , which are densely covered with soft, silky hair on the outside, the inside is bare, when ripe it opens.
The seeds are individually attached to the base of the bellows and have a fleshy outer layer, the so-called sarcotesta , which covers the base of the seed. One endosperm is missing, the cotyledons are thick, the radicle is pointed.
distribution
The genus is ancient , the species are found in tropical Africa and tropical Asia.
Systematics
The genus is placed in the tribe Cnestidae of the family. There are eight types including:
- Agelaea lamarckii Planch.
- Agelaea paradoxa Gilg
- Agelaea pentagyna (Lam.) Baill. : It occurs in tropical Africa, Madagascar, the Comoros and Mauritius.
literature
- RHMJ Lemmens et al .: Connaraceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Volume 6: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-06512-1 , pp. 74–81 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
- ^ Agelaea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
