Xylopodia klaprothioides
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Xylopodia klaprothioides is the only species of the plant genus Xylopodia withinthe nettle family (Loasaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
In Xylopodia klaprothioides is an upright branched shrub , which consists of a horizontal Xylopodium growing.
The leaves are arranged opposite one another. The leaf blades have two to three leaf lobes on each side and the leaf edge is serrated.
Generative characteristics
The terminal inflorescence is a dichasium . There are two tiny prophylls under each of the hanging flowers .
The hermaphrodite flowers are radial symmetry and four-fold with a double flower envelope . There are four sepals . The petals are green.
The outer staminodes are fused and form a white scale sheet ( nectar scale ), the tip of which ends in three to four triangular lobes. The green-yellow Staminodien are in groups of seven to nine pieces with each other, the four outer and six are fused together at the base and form a green-yellow, dense papillous haired shed sheet ( nectar scale ), the inner Staminodien are non grow.
The ovary is semi-protruding.
The almost spherical and straight capsule fruit opens with four flaps at the top of the fruit. The seeds are narrowly ovate.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24.
Occurrence
Xylopodia klaprothioides thrives on rocky slopes and is endemic to the Peruvian region of Cajamarca .
Systematics
Xylopodia klaprothioides is the only species of the genus Xylopodia that belongs to the tribe Klaprothieae in the subfamily Loasoideae within the family Loasaceae . The valid first description of Xylopodia klaprothioides was made in 2006 by Maximilian Weigend in Taxon , Volume 55, Issue 2, page 467, f. 1. After the publication in his doctoral thesis in 1997 and the extensive systematic work on the Loasaceae family by Maximilian Weigend did not represent a valid first publication of a species.
literature
- Maximilian Weigend: Loasaceae. 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. 250 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
Most of the information in this article has been taken from the sources given under references; the following sources are also cited: