Hoplestigma

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Hoplestigma
Systematics
Eudicotyledons
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Asterids
Euasterids I
Family : Boraginaceae (Boraginaceae)
Genre : Hoplestigma
Scientific name
Hoplestigma
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Hoplestigma is a plant genus of the family of Borage Family (Boraginaceae). The two species of this genus are native only to the tropics of western Africa .

description

Hoplestigma species are deciduous trees . The alternate, stalked leaves are large and simple. The leaf margin is smooth. Stipules are absent.

The rolled up zymous inflorescence is terminal and has no bracts . The almost radially symmetrical flowers are hermaphroditic. The two to four sepals are fused and end in unequal calyx tips; the cup remains on the fruit. The eleven to fourteen petals , which stand in two to four circles, are fused to form a short tube and the corolla lobes are at least as long as the corolla tube. There are 20 to 35 free, fertile stamens in three circles . The two carpels are a top permanent ovary grown. The two styles are only fused at the base, with heady scars . The stone fruits contain a core, which consists of four seeds.

Systematics

The genus is recently in the family Boraginaceae asked (Boraginaceae). Before that, she formed her own family, Hoplestigmataceae.

Only two species belong to the genus and thus to the family:

species

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group : An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. In: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 161, No. 2, 2009, pp. 105-121, DOI: 10.1111 / j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x .
  2. ↑ Hoplestigmataceae in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
  3. ^ Hoplestigma at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

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