Kogelbergia
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The Kogelbergia are a plant genus that the family of stilbaceae is attributed. It includes two species that are common in South Africa.
description
Kogelbergia are small, single-stemmed or bulky, multi-stemmed shrubs . The leaves stand in whorls of five to seven, they are furrowed and narrowly lanceolate-linear; they stand upright, lying flat, or bent back.
The inflorescences are sessile, terminal, spherical or egg-shaped spikes . The flowers are sessile and are accompanied by two opposite bracts . The five sepals are either free or are only fused tubularly at the base. At the tip of the sepals they are hairy silky. The crown is funnel-shaped, five-lobed, hairless on the outside, but densely tomentose to fringed hair on the inside of the corolla lobes. The hair does not reach into the throat of the corolla tube. The four stamens protrude beyond the crown, the anthers are fixed dorsally and ovoid. The ovary is bilaterally flattened egg-shaped, with two unicompartmental and basal upright ovules provided. The stylus is round and straight.
Systematics and distribution
Within the genus, a distinction is made between two species that are common in the Western Cape region of South Africa:
- Kogelbergia phylicoides (A.DC.) Rourke
- Kogelbergia verticillata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Rourke
literature
- HP Lindner: Stilbaceae . In: Klaus Kubitzki , Joachim W. Kadereit (eds.): Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Lamiales (except Acanthaceae Including Avicenniaceae). Springer Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-40593-1 , p. 438.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Kogelbergia. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved February 22, 2015.