Home Flora of Panama (WFO)
Name Search
Markup OCR Documents
!!Tetramerium Nees Search in The Plant ListSearch in IPNISearch in Australian Plant Name IndexSearch in Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)Search in NYBG Virtual HerbariumSearch in JSTOR Plant ScienceSearch in SEINetSearch in African Plants Database at Geneva Botanical GardenAfrican Plants, Senckenberg Photo GallerySearch in Flora do Brasil 2020Search in Reflora - Virtual HerbariumSearch in Living Collections Decrease font Increase font Restore font
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 7/30/2013)
Genus Tetramerium Nees
PlaceOfPublication Benth., Bot. Voy. Sulphur 147. 1846, nom. cons.
Note TYPE: T. polystachyam Nees. typ. cons.
Description Herbs, sometimes suffrutescent; stems erect or declining, much branched, pubescence often arranged in two opposite lines, the old bark often exfoliating. Leaves linear to ovate, entire, glabrous or pubescent, sessile or petiolate. In- florescences in terminal, 4-sided spikes; bracts opposite, 4-ranked, conspicuous, often closely imbricate with cuspidate apex; pedicels 2 per bract. Flowers with the calyx 4-5-merous, equal, the segments ciliate; corollas funnelform to tubular, the lower lip entire, the upper lip 3-lobed, the lobes about equal; stamens 2, included in the entire lower lobe, the anther cells slightly unequal. Capsules clavate, apiculate, 4- or 2-seeded; seeds flattened, papillate or muriculate.
Habit Herbs
Note There are approximately 25 species in this genus,
Distribution ranges from southern United States to Colombia and Ecuador.
 
 
© 2024 Missouri Botanical Garden - 4344 Shaw Boulevard - Saint Louis, Missouri 63110