Gunniopsis

Gunniopsis
	Gunniopsis intermedia
Systematics
	Eudicotyledons
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Midday flowers (Aizoaceae)
Subfamily :	Aizooideae
Genre :	Gunniopsis
Scientific name
	Gunniopsis
	Pax

Gunniopsis is a genus of plants fromthe afternoon flower family (Aizoaceae). The botanical name of the genus honors the Australian botanist and politician Ronald Campbell Gunn (1808-1881).

description

The species of the genus Gunniopsis grow as annual to perennial herbaceous plants , the base of which is woody in some species, or as woody shrubs . The opposite leaves are free or grown together at their base, the bladder cells protrude more or less.

The flowers appear due to the sheet-like bracts often than single flowers, but actually in a sometimes very large zymosen inflorescence stand together. Your perigon is four-lobed. The perigone lobes are fused or free at the base. The 4 to 30 stamens stand together in four groups or different whorls. The pollen is spotted and covered with low, scattered thorns, the ovary is central or above. The capsule fruits are fourfold. The swelling strips are located laterally on the flaps, which often disintegrate into eight parts when opened for the first time. The fruits contain egg-shaped to almost circular, smooth or patterned seeds .

Systematics and distribution

The genus Gunniopsis is common in arid areas in southern Australia .

The genus was first described in 1889 by Ferdinand Albin Pax . Their type is Gunniopsis septifraga . The genus Gunniopsis includes the following species:

Gunniopsis calcarea Chinnock
Gunniopsis calva Chinnock
Gunniopsis divisa Chinnock
Gunniopsis glabra (Luehm. Ex Ewart) CAGardner
Gunniopsis intermedia Diels
Gunniopsis kochii (R. Wagner) Chinnock
Gunniopsis papillata Chinnock
Gunniopsis propinqua Chinnock
Gunniopsis quadrifida (F. Muell.) Pax
Gunniopsis rodwayi (Ewart) CA Gardner
Gunniopsis rubra Chinnock
Gunniopsis septifraga (F. Muell.) Chinnock
Gunniopsis tenuifolia Chinnock
Gunniopsis zygophylloides (F.Muell.) Diels

proof

literature

Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae FZ . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41723-0 , pp. 48 .

Individual evidence

^ Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler, Karl Anton Eugen Prantl (ed.): The natural plant families together with their genera and more important species, especially the useful plants . Part 3, Division 1b, 1889, p. 44 (online) .
↑ Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae FZ . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41723-0 , pp. 48-51 .

[1] Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler, Karl Anton Eugen Prantl (ed.): The natural plant families together with their genera and more important species, especially the useful plants . Part 3, Division 1b, 1889, p. 44 (online) .

[2] Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae FZ . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41723-0 , pp. 48-51 .