Tropicos | Name - Limnosipanea Hook. f.

Limnosipanea Hook. f.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/10/2013)

Genus	Limnosipanea Hook. f.
PlaceOfPublication	Hook., Icon. P1. Ser. 3. 1(11): 38, pi. 1050. 1868.
Note	TYPE: Brazil, Limnosipanea spruceana Hook. f.
Synonym	Sipania Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald 136. 1853. TYPE: S. palistns Seem., not Sipanea Aubl. 1775, (Rubiaceae).
Description	Herbs, slender, erect, branching above, the branches dichotomous. Leaves 3 to numerous at a node, verticillate, the uppermost occasionally opposite; stip- ules obsolete, often reduced to a subulate projection. Inflorescences cymose with flowers solitary or in few-flowered terminal clusters in the angles or along the length of usually dichotomous branches. Flowers with the calycine lobes some- what foliaceous, persistent; corolla variously colored, hypocrateriform, the tube narrow, glabrous within, the mouth glabrous or variously pubescent, the lobes 5, oblong, contorted; stamens 5, inserted at the mouth, the anthers oblong, dor- sifixed, the filaments slender; ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, disposed on a median septum. Capsule ovoid, scarious, loculicidally dehiscent, the seeds numerous.
Habit	Herbs
Distribution	a genus of about 7 species, one of which is in Panama, the others in tropical South America.
Reference	Standley, P. C. 1928. Flora of Panama Canal Zone, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 27: 355. Steyermark, J. 1974. Limnosipanea Hook. f. Flora de Venezuela 9(1): 384. Wernham, H. F. 1917. The Genus Sipanea. J. Bot. 50: 171-175.