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Gronovia is a plant kind from the family of loasaceae (Loasaceae). It contains two species that are native to South and Central America. It was named after Jan Frederik Gronovius .
description
They are climbing, annual herbaceous plants that are covered with nettle hairs as well as with stinging hairs. The leaf blades are kidney-shaped and deeply indented or lobed with three to four lobes on each side, long tapering, membranous and entire.
The inflorescences are terminal and thyrse-like , typically with a dichasium on the outside and in addition a monochasial paracladia .
The sepals are not overgrown or overgrown towards the tip, yellow to yellow-green. The petals are whole and either enclosed in the calyx or towering above it, thin-skinned and pale yellow. The stamens lack a differentiated connective .
The number of chromosomes is n = 37.
distribution
The two species grow as fast-growing herbs in rainforests from northwest Peru to Mexico.
Systematics
Gronovia was first described in 1753 by Carl von Linné . The type species is Gronovia scandens L. The genus is classified in the subfamily Gronovioideae and is very close to the genus Fuertesia . The genus includes two types.
- Gronovia scandens L.
- Gronovia longiflora Rose : It was first described from Mexico.
proof
- Maximilian Weigend: Loasaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Volume 6: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-06512-1 , pp. 248 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
- Maximilian Weigend: Familial and generic classification. Online , accessed August 1, 2008
Individual evidence
Most of the information in this article has been taken from the sources given under references; the following sources are also cited:
- ↑ Maximilian Weigend: Loasaceae In: Rodrigo Bernal, Enrique Forero (ed.): Flora de Colombia , Vol. 22, 2001, p. 11
