Camel tread family
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Grielum humifusum in Namaqualand , Goegap Nature Reserve, Northern Cape, South Africa |
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The camel step plants (Neuradaceae) are a small family of plants in the order of the mallow-like (Malvales). This family today contains three genera with about ten species. The species have their areas in dry areas ( arid ) from Africa and the Mediterranean to India ( Holarctic and Palaeotropic ).
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description
They are usually low, annual, rarely perennial herbaceous plants (up to subshrubs ). You are hairy. The alternately arranged leaves are simple or deeply divided. If they are not divided, they have a serrated or serrated leaf margin. Stipules are missing.
The individually standing, large, hermaphrodite, five-fold flowers are radial symmetry . There are five free sepals and five petals each. There are five free, fertile stamens in two circles . Ten carpels are at a more or less permanent ovary grown only in part, with (three to) six to ten pencils and scars (there are more or less free Stylodien ). They form einsamige follicles (or capsule fruits ), when the camel passage ( Neurada procumbens than) Trampelkletten are formed.
Systematics
A synonym is Grielaceae Martynov . This family contains three genera with about ten species:
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Grielum L .: With about five species in southern Africa:
- Grielum flagelliform E. Mey.
- Grielum grandiflorum L. (Syn .: Grielum tenuifolium L. ): Is native to the Capensis .
- Grielum humifusum Thunb.
- Grielum marlothii Engl.
- Grielum obtusifolium E. Mey. ex Harv.
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Neurada L .: With the only species:
- Camel Kick ( Neurada procumbens ) L .; it occurs in Africa, Arabia, western Asia and southern Asia.
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Neuradopsis Bremek. & Oberm. : With about three species in South West Africa:
- Neuradopsis austroafricana (Schinz) Bremek. & Oberm.
- Neuradopsis bechuanensis Bremek. & Oberm.
- Neuradopsis grieloidea Bremek. & Oberm.
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- Description of the family of neuradaceae in APWebsite (Engl.)
- Description of the Neuradaceae family at DELTA. (engl.)
- David John Mabberley: Mabberley's Plant-Book. A portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses . 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4
