Kageneckia
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Kageneckia oblonga |
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The Kageneckia are a plant kind from the family of the rose family (Rosaceae).
description
Kageneckia are unpriled shrubs or low trees . Its leaves are alternate, simple, pinnate and toothed on the edge, stipules are present.
Kageneckia are dioecious with attractive flowers . The male inflorescence is a cluster of umbrella or raceme , the female flowers are solitary.
The flower cup is bell- or inverted-cone-shaped, an outer calyx is missing. The petals are white to yellowish. The disc is wreath-shaped, with around fifteen stamens or staminodes on the wreath . The scars are widened and forked. The male flowers have small rudiments of pistils. The numerous ovules are in two horizontal rows.
The fruit is a follicle with numerous seeds winged at the tip.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 34.
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distribution
Kageneckia can be found in South America from Bolivia, Peru and Chile to Argentina.
Systematics
The genus was first described in 1794 by Hipólito Ruiz López and José Antonio Pavon . It is classified in the tribe Pyreae, Supertribus Pyrodae of the subfamily Spiraeoideae . There are three types:
- Kageneckia angustifolia D.Don
- Kageneckia lanceolata Ruiz & Pav.
- Kageneckia oblonga Ruiz & Pav.
proof
- C. Kalkman: Rosaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 354-355, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8
