Brookea
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Brookea is a plant genus , those of the family of plantain plants is allocated (Plantaginaceae). It includes four species that occur on Borneo .
description
Brookea are many-branched shrubs or small trees that are densely hairy, fine-tomentose to tomentose. The trunks are erect and rounded. The leaves are stem-like, opposite and stalked. The leaf blade is leathery, lanceolate or ovate, pointed towards the front and provided with a serrated to serrated edge.
The flowers are almost sessile or have a short stalk. The bell-shaped calyx is hairy with fine felting and divided into four or five calyx lobes over a third of its length. The crown is colored white, the coronet is divided into two lips. The corolla lobes are protruding, the corolla tube is cylindrical and longer than the corolla lobes. The four stamens do not protrude beyond the crown. The ovary is egg-shaped.
Systematics and occurrence
The species of the genus Brookea previously including the tribe Bowkerieae the family of Figworts assigned (Scrophulariaceae), the genus but according to recent findings in a family Plantain Family performed (Plantaginaceae).
Four species are distinguished within the genus, all of which only occur on Borneo:
- Brookea albicans Stapf
- Brookea auriculata T. Yamaz.
- Brookea dasyantha Benth.
- Brookea tomentosa Benth.
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.