Fatoua
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Fatoua is a genus of plants in the mulberry family(Moraceae). It is distributed with two or three species from East Asia to Australia , on the Pacific islands and on Madagascar .
description
They are annual or perennial herbaceous plants without milky sap . They grow upright and reach heights of up to 80 cm.
The leaves are alternate . The paper-like leaf blade is broadly oval to triangular oval. The leaf margin is serrated. The two stipules are not fused and are on the side of the petioles, but they fall off early.
The plants are single sexed ( monoecious ). The axillary inflorescences are short, but clearly stalked, head-shaped cymes . The inflorescences usually contain flowers of both sexes. The male flowers have a four-lobed, bell-shaped calyx and the stamens are curved in the bud. The female have a boat-shaped four- to five-lobed calyx. The fruit is a rounded small achene .
Systematics and occurrence
The two species of the genus are distributed from East Asia ( Japan , Korea , China ) via Southeast Asia and Indonesia to Australia , as well as New Caledonia and Madagascar .
They grow on wasteland and in weed meadows.
species
There are two or three types of Fatoua :
- Fatoua madagascariensis Leandri is native to Madagascar . It is often not seen as a separate species, but as Fatoua pilosa .
- Fatoua pilosa Gaudich. , a perennial tropical species found from Taiwan and the Philippines through Indonesia to New Caledonia and Northern Australia. This species has a number of synonyms .
- Fatoua villosa (Thunb.) Nakai , an annual species, whose range also includes the temperate parts of East Asia ( China , Korea , Japan ). Since 1969 the species has alsobeen naturalizedin the USA .
swell
- Flora of China - Fatoua (Engl.)
- Flora of North America - Fatoua (Engl.)
