Burmannia connata
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Burmannia connata is a species ofthe Burmanniaceae family . It is native to Sumatra .
description
Burmannia connata is an annual, leaf-green, thread-like, slender, unbranched to seldom branched herbaceous plant that reaches a height of 18 to 29 centimeters. It is semi-mycotrophic . There is no rhizome, the roots are fibrous. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate and pointed, 3.6 to 8 millimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters wide. They stand as a down-to-earth rosette and close to the stem, where they are pointed and 3.2 to 4 millimeters long.
The inflorescence consists of one or two stalked flowers . The flowers are 6 to 8 millimeters long and white with light purple wings and bluish lobes. The flower tube is cylindrical and 3 millimeters long, the approximately 2 millimeter wide wings are halved elliptical to halved inverted-lanceolate and run from below the base of the ovary to the base of the outer lobes. The outer lobes are oval-triangular, thin and upright, with rolled or flat edges and around 1.2 millimeters long, the inner lobes are triangular, thin, upright, slightly inclined and tapering and around 5 millimeters long. The stamens are sessile and start below the inner lobes, the only theca starts below the connective . The stylus is thread-shaped, 3 millimeters long and branched short, with three scars at its ends .
The ovaries are inverted egg-shaped and 4 millimeters long. The inverted egg-shaped capsule opens along transverse slits. The seeds are numerous and elliptical.
distribution
Burmannia connata is native to Sumatra , information on the habitat is missing.
Systematics
The species was first described in 1938 by Fredrik Pieter Jonker .
proof
- Dianxiang Zhang : Systematics of Burmannia L. (Burmanniaceae) in the Old World , pp. 217-218, in: Hong Kong University Theses Online, Thesis (Ph.D.), University of Hong Kong, 1999