- Family:
- Plantaginaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Callitriche L.
Callitriche anisoptera Schotsman
[FTEA]
Callitrichaceae, Inga Hedberg & Olov Hedberg. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2003
- Morphology General Habit
- Stem 5–25 cm long, prostrate, mat-forming.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves spathulate to elliptic, 4–6 mm long and 2–2.5 mm wide, 3–5-veined; petiole 1-veined.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers solitary, the male with 2 bracteoles; stamens 2–6 mm long, anthers ± 0.5 mm long; style 1.5–3.5 mm long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit ± 1.3–1.5 mm long and 1.6–1.8 mm wide, variously and unequally winged with best developed wings in the distal part.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Pollen
- Pollen reticulum meshes more than twice as wide as the clavae; clavae with a globular surface.
- Figures
- Fig. 1/5–6 (p. 3).
- Habitat
- Along paths and small streams, on mud in bogs; 2900–4000 m
- Distribution
- K4 U2
Native to:
Kenya, Uganda, Zaïre
Callitriche anisoptera Schotsman appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia 10: 7 (1988)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Schotsman in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, sér. 4, 10: 7 (1988).
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0