Uncarina platycarpa
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Uncarina platycarpa is a species of the genus Uncarina in the sesame family (Pedaliaceae).
description
Uncarina platycarpa grows as a small tree with a short, thickened trunk and a few long, unbranched, upward branches. It grows up to 3 meters high. The deeply lobed leaves have a large terminal lobes and four smaller lateral lobes that are only slightly three-lobed. The leaf blade becomes 20 centimeters long and wide. The green upper side of the leaf is covered with only a few, simple hairs with a reduced head and individual mucous glands with a square head. The underside of the leaf appears greyish green through a loose covering with short-stalked mucous glands with a square head and long, simple hair, which occasionally have a reduced head.
The inflorescence consists of cymes with 3 to 7 individual flowers that form dense clusters. The golden yellow flowers have a dark red throat. The flower tube is about 4.5 to 7 inches long.
The side of the heavily compressed fruit is almost square in the side view and has a short, triangular beak . Furthermore, two 12 to 15 millimeter wide wings are arranged on the sides of the approximately 6 by 6 centimeter large fruit, at the ends of which there are spike-like extensions. Only hook spikes are formed. They are five or six in a row, are up to 12 millimeters long and do not extend beyond the beak. The widened bases of the spines form a crest up to 3 millimeters high. No false partitions are formed. The obovate seeds are 10 millimeters long and 9 millimeters wide and have 1.5 millimeter wings.
Distribution and systematics
Uncarina platycarpa is endemic in central and western Madagascar , in the south of the province of Mahajanga on coral limestone, distributed in red, loamy soil.
The species was first described in 1996 by John Jacob Lavranos . The species is closely related to Uncarina leandrii .
literature
- H.-D. Ihlenfeldt: Uncarina. In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Volume 2: Dicotyledonous plants (dicotyledons). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 383-384.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In: Cactus and Succulent Journal. Volume 68, Number 2, 1996, p. 82.