Sarcopera
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The Sarcopera are a genus of plants from the Marcgraviaceae family with nine species .
description
Sarcopera are overgrown shrubs or lianas , rarely small trees that often grow epiphytically . The leaves are sessile or stalked, sometimes asymmetrical.
The inflorescences form spikes from 100 to 450 (rarely from 35) flowers . Flower stalks are absent or rarely extremely reduced.
The nectaries are stalked, lie - at least in the upper half of the inflorescence - on the inflorescence axis at the flower base and are bowl-shaped or sack-shaped.
The brightly colored flowers are five-fold, the petals are not overgrown or weakly overgrown at the base. There are eight to twenty-five (rarely six) stamens , the stamens are ingrown or fused with the crown. The ovaries are completely two-, three- or five-chambered with four to eight (rarely up to twelve) ovules per chamber. One stylus is missing.
distribution
The genus is New World , its range extends from Honduras over the Andes to northern Bolivia and the Guiana highlands .
Systematics
The genus contains eight species:
- Sarcopera anomala (Kunth) Bedell
- Sarcopera aurantiaca (Spruce ex Gilg) de Roon & S.Dressler
- Sarcopera cordachida (Ruiz & Pav. Ex G.Don) Bedell ex S.Dressler
- Sarcopera flammifera de Roon & Bedell
- Sarcopera rosulata de Roon & Bedell
- Sarcopera sessiliflora (Triana & Planch.) Bedell
- Sarcopera tepuiensis (de Roon) Bedell
Sarcopera oxystylis (Baill.) Bedell ex Gir.-Cañas is now classified as Pseudosarcopera oxystylis (Baill.) Gir.-Cañas in the genus Pseudosarcopera Gir.-Cañas .
proof
- 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).
Web links
Wikispecies: Sarcopera - Species Directory