- Family: Primulaceae Batsch ex Borkh.
Ardisiandra Hook.f.
[FZ]
Primulaceae, F. K. Kupicha. Flora Zambesiaca 7:1. 1983
- Morphology General Habit
- Pilose creeping herbs with leafy stems.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves petiolate, alternate, orbicular, coarsely lobed and toothed.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Racemes few–flowered, extra–axillary, short–peduncled; flowers pedicellate and bracteate, inconspicuous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx segments 5, free or somewhat accrescent, persistent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla campanulate, with 5 lobes 1/3–1/2 the length of the corolla.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 5, oppositipetalous; filaments short, connate below into a continuous ring fused at the base to the corolla–tube; anthers apiculate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary multiovulate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule globose, dehiscent by 5 apical valves or indehiscent, many–seeded.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds angular, blackish, papillose.
[FTEA]
Primulaceae, P. Taylor. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1958
- Morphology General Habit
- Pubescent herbs, creeping and rooting at the nodes or more or less acaulescent
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves petiolate, alternate, ovate to orbicular, coarsely lobed and toothed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers small, pedicellate, bracteate, in few-flowered short extra-axillary sessile or pedunculate racemes; bracts linear, situated at or near the base of the pedicels
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx-segments 5 (rarely and abnormally up to 7) ± ovate, acute, ciliate, sometimes somewhat accrescent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla campanulate; lobes 5, about 1/3 of the length of the corolla, sometimes ciliate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens shortly connate at the base into a ring which is adnate to the corolla; filaments short; anthers apiculate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary globose, setulose
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Capsule globose, dehiscing by 5 short cartilaginous valves, or indehiscent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds 3angled, minutely papillose
- Distribution
- The genus is confined to the mountains of tropical Africa
- Note
- It is very closely related to Cortusa L. with a few species in central Europe and Asia.
Native to:
Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Ardisiandra Hook.f. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 7: 205 (1863)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- P. Taylor in Kew Bull. 13: 146 (1958).
- Pax & Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenr. 4, 237, Primulac.: 222 (1905)
- —F.T.A. 3: 488
Flora Zambesiaca
- P. Taylor in Kew Bull. 13: 146 (1958).
- Weim. in Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 30: 36 (1936).
- in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 7: 205 (1864).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- P. Tayl. in K.B. 1958 : 146 (1958)
- in J.L.S. 7 : 205, t. 1 (1864)
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