Echinocodon lobophyllus

Echinocodon lobophyllus
Systematics
	Euasterids II
Order :	Astern-like (Asterales)
Family :	Bellflower family (Campanulaceae)
Subfamily :	Campanuloideae
Genre :	Echinocodon
Type :	Echinocodon lobophyllus
Scientific name of the genus
	Echinocodon
	DYHong
Scientific name of the species
	Echinocodon lobophyllus
	DYHong

Echinocodon draco (Pamp.) DY Hong (Syn .: Echinocodon lobophyllus D.Y. Hong ) is the only species of the genus Echinocodon in the bellflower family(Campanulaceae). It is common in central China .

features

The leaves are alternate, simple, the edges are notched to pinnate lobes or divided. The flower is four, rarely three or five-fold. The sepals have prickly appendages. The pollen has four, rarely five furrows ("colpat"). The ovary is subordinate. The fruit is a capsule that opens above the sepals. The capsule compartments are offset from the permanent sepals.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.

literature

DY Hong: Echinocodon Hong, a new genus of Campanulaceae and its systematic position . In: Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica . Volume 22. Number 3, 1984, pp. 181-184.

Individual evidence

↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Echinocodon - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on February 10, 2018.

[WCSP-1] Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Echinocodon - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on February 10, 2018.