Hierobotana inflata
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Hierobotana inflata is the only way the plant genus Hierobotana that the family of the iron herb plants is attributed to (Verbenaceae). The species is native to Ecuador , Colombia and Peru .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Hierobotana inflata is a prostrate, non-fragrant, woody herbaceous plant . The leaves are lobed in three parts.
Generative characteristics
In the terminal, annual inflorescence there are fine, inconspicuous bracts . The flowers are sessile.
The hermaphrodite flowers are five-fold with a double flower envelope . The five sepals are tubular and the calyx ends in five almost equally large calyx lobes. On the fruit, the calyx is permanent and enlarged. The almost radially symmetrical crown is white with a purple tint. The five petals are fused together like a funnel and the corolla tube is straight. The coronet is divided into five corolla lobes. In contrast to most of the other genera of the Verbenaceae family, there are only two fertile stamens instead of usually four. The two stamens start near the center of the corolla tube. The counters of the dust bags are not filled with attachments. The stylus is resistant to the fruit. Two carpels are an upper continuous, two-chambered ovary grown, each ovary chamber is divided into two compartments, in each of which a seed plant is located.
distribution
Hierobotana inflata is common in Ecuador , Colombia, and Peru . According to R. Govaerts, it only occurs originally in Ecuador.
Systematics
The species was first described in 1818 under the name ( Basionym ) Verbena inflata by Karl Sigismund Kunth in Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt , Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland and Karl Sigismund Kunth: Nova Genera et Species Plantarum , 4th edition, 2, page 273, Plate 135. The genus Hierobotana was created in 1895 by John Isaac Briquet in Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler and Karl Anton Eugen Prantl : The natural plant families , Volume 4, 3a, page 148, with the new combination to Hierobotana inflata (Kunth) Briq. , set up. Another synonym for Hierobotana inflata (Kunth) Briq. is Verbena heterophylla Willd. ex explos.
Hierobotana inflata is the only species in the genus Hierobotana . The tribe Verbeneae showers since 2009 contains the five genera: Hierobotana , Junellia , Verbena , Glandularia and Mulguraea .
literature
- Sandy Atkins: Verbenaceae . In: Klaus Kubitzki, Joachim W. Kadereit (Eds.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae including Avicenniaceae) . tape 7 . Springer Science & Business Media, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-18617-2 , p. 461 ( Hierobotana on p. 461 in the Google book search).
- Nataly O'Leary, Pablo Moroni: Hierobotana Briq., An intriguing monotypic genus of tribe Verbeneae (Verbenaceae). In: Phytotaxa , Volume 164, issue 4, 2014, pp. 286-290. doi : 10.11646 / phytotaxa.164.4.8
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Hierobotana. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved September 23, 2019.
- ↑ Hierobotana at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed December 31, 2017.