Pseudoconnarus
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Pseudoconnarus is a plant kind from the family of connaraceae .
description
Pseudoconnarus are lianas . The leaves are pinnate unpaired and consist of three leaflets . The inflorescence is a panicle , the quite clearly heterodistyled flowers are hermaphroditic and five-fold.
The petals are bare, but covered with glands that stamens are bare, the stylus or glabrous. There are five carpels , the fruit's sessile follicles , which are bare inside and outside and open when ripe.
The seeds are individually attached to the base of the follicle, the endosperm is plentiful, the cotyledons are thin, the radicle is pointed.
distribution
The genus is New World , rare for the family , all species are found in tropical South America.
Systematics
The genus is placed in the tribe Cnestidae of the family. There are five types including:
- Pseudoconnarus macrophyllus Radlk.
proof
- RHMJ Lemmens et al .: Connaraceae. 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. 74–81 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).