6992.000 Aniseia Choisy

Description of the genus

Prostrate or twining herbs. Leaves petiolate, linear, oblong, lanceolate, ovate or elliptic, often mucronulate. Flowers axillary, solitary in the African species, on long peduncles. Sepals 5, herbaceous, acute or acuminate, the 3 outer ones much larger than the inner, ovate and more or less decurrent on the peduncle, enlarged in fruit. Corolla funnel-shaped, usually entire outside, with 5-well-defined hairy mid-petaline bands. Stamens 5, included, filiform; pollen smooth. Disk small or absent. Ovary bilocular, 4-ovuled, glabrous; style 1, simple, filiform, included, stigmas, 2, thick, globular or oblong. Capsule ovoid or globose, bilocular, 4-valved and 4-seeded. Seeds trigonous or globose, black.

Worldwide: Species 5, in tropical regions.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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martinicensis (Jacq.) ChoisyZDescription, Image

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External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Aniseia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Aniseia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Aniseia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Aniseia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Aniseia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Aniseia
JSTOR Plant Science: Aniseia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Aniseia
Plants of the World Online: Aniseia
Tropicos: Aniseia
Wikipedia: Aniseia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Aniseia.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2261, retrieved 28 March 2024

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