Souroubea
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The Souroubea are a genus of plants from the Marcgraviaceae family with nineteen species .
description
Souroubea are climbing shrubs or lianas that often grow epiphytically . The leaves are short-stalked. The inflorescences form loose or dense clusters of 15 to 60 (rarely up to 100) flowers . The flowers are small, short-stalked. The nectaries are sessile to almost sessile, lie on the upper half of the flower stalk, usually directly below the calyx , are hollow, spur-like and lobed like an ear.
The flowers are five-fold (rarely three to six-fold). The petals are not overgrown or overgrown to over two thirds of their length. There are three or five stamens , the stamens of which are not grown or fused with the approach of the crown. The scar is three- to five-lobed radial. The ovaries are three to five-chambered, then each arranged in a pentagon. The plants produce very few seeds.
distribution
The genus is new-worldly . Their distribution area extends from Mexico to Bolivia. But it is missing on the West Indies .
Systematics
The genus contains nineteen species, including:
- Souroubea corallina Delp.
- Souroubea bicolor (Benth.) De Roon
- Souroubea gilgii V.A. Richt.
- Souroubea loczyi (VARicht.) De Roon
- Souroubea sympetala Gilg .
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: Souroubea - Species Directory