Cheilotheca
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Cheilotheca is a genus of plants fromthe heather family (Ericaceae). The two species are native to South Asia.
description
Cheilotheca are chlorophyllless , myco-heterotrophic , herbaceous plants . Their root system is a loose mass, the stem and inflorescence axis growing from them stands upright and is white to purple. The leaves are simple.
The inflorescence is one to few flowers. They have two to five sepals , the crown is tubular to bell-shaped, the three concave petals are not fused together. The six stamens are half to two thirds as long as the crown, the anthers are either linear with ungrown, longitudinally slit theca or fused, horseshoe-shaped and simply slit at the end. The stylus is permanent.
The ovary is sixfold and has parietal placentation . The fruit is berry-like.
distribution
The genus is found in South Asia from the Indian Assam over the Malaysian peninsula to the Indonesian Sumatra at altitudes between 600 and 1500 meters.
Systematics
The genus was first described in 1876 by Joseph Dalton Hooker . Andresia Sleumer is a synonym . It is of two types, including:
- Cheilotheca malayana scort. ex Hook.f. : It was first described from the Malay Peninsula.
proof
- PF Stevens et al .: Ericaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Springer-Verlag , Berlin 2004, pp. 167-168, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8