Norantea
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Norantea guianensis |
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The Norantea are a genus of plants from the Marcgraviaceae family with two species .
description
Norantea are overgrown shrubs or lianas that often grow epiphytically . The leaves are stalked. The inflorescences are long, dense clusters of 100 to 300 short-stalked flowers . The nectaries are located on the upper half of the flower stalk, are stalked and sack-shaped.
The flowers are five-fold. The petals are not overgrown or weakly overgrown at the base. There are 20 to 35 stamens , the stamens are fused with the approach of the crown. The ovaries are five-chambered, each chamber has ten to twenty ovules .
distribution
The genus is New World , its range extends from northern South America to Bolivia and southern Brazil .
Systematics
The genus contains two species including:
- Norantea guianensis Aubl. : It occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Guiana, French Guiana, Suriname and in Trinidad-Tobago.
literature
- S. Dressler: Marcgraviaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Volume 6: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-06512-1 , pp. 258–265 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
- ^ Norantea in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
Web links
Wikispecies: Norantea - Species Directory