Euthystachys abbreviata
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Euthystachys abbreviata is the only species of the genus Euthystachys thatbelongs tothe Stilbaceae family . It is common in South Africa.
description
Euthystachys abbreviata are small, multi-stemmed shrubs that form wood tubers . The leaves are heather-like, linear, initially hairy, but then balding. They stand in whorls of four leaves.
The flowers are erect, egg-shaped spikes . They are also perennial and are accompanied by two opposite, softly hairy bracts . The sepals are of the same shape and are fused into a tube in the lower third. The lower half of the crown is tubular-funnel-shaped, the upper half forms five identical, splayed, egg-shaped, pointed crown lobes. Except for a ring of trichomes in the crown throat, the crown is hairless. The four stamens are slightly above the crown. The ovary is obovate, glabrous and sides slightly. In each of the two ovary compartments there is a single, basal ovule . The stylus is straight, thready and hairless.
Occurrence
Euthystachys abbreviata occurs in the mountains of the central Western Cape region of South Africa .
literature
- HP Lindner: Stilbaceae . 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. 438.