Bowkeria
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Bowkeria verticillata |
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The Bowkeria is a plant genus that the family of stilbaceae is attributed. It comprises five species that are found in South Africa .
description
Bowkeria are many-branched shrubs or small trees that are hairy with delicate to tomentose hairs. The trunks grow upright and are rounded. The leathery leaves are usually stalked in threes, they can be sessile or stalked. The shape is lanceolate, elliptical or egg-shaped, they are pointed towards the front. The leaf margin is almost entire to notched or serrate.
The flowers are clearly stalked. The calyx is bell-shaped and covered with five almost equally large calyx lobes, the axially facing tip is the widest. The crown is colored white or yellow, the coronet is divided into two lips. The corolla tube is short cylindrical at the base, above broadly bell-shaped. The four stamens do not protrude beyond the crown, occasionally stamens are stunted to staminodes . The ovary is cylindrical or conical and consists of two or three compartments. The scar is club-shaped.
Systematics
Five species are distinguished within the genus. The Bowkeria previously the family of the tribe Bowkerieae Figworts assigned (Scrophulariaceae), the genus but according to recent findings in a family stilbaceae performed.
Occurrence
The species of the genus occur in South Africa , they are also often cultivated.
literature
- E. Fischer: Scrophulariaceae . In: Klaus Kubitzki, Joachim W. Kadereit (eds.): Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae Including Avicenniaceae) , Springer Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-40593-1 , p. 427.
