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(Last Modified On 5/30/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/30/2013)
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Genus
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Cryptostegia R. Br.
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Bot. Reg. t. 435. 1820.
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TYPE: C. grandiflora (Roxb.) R. Br.
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Description
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Glabrous vines or climbing shrubs; stems woody, glabrous with conspicuous lenticels; sap copious, milky. Leaves short petiolate, coriaceous, lanceolate to nearly orbicular, basally rounded, apically short acuminate, dark shiny green above, paler beneath with conspicuous fine reticulate veins. Inflorescence sev- eral-flowered, cymose, terminal. Flowers with the calyx 5-lobed, cleft to the base, the lobes ovate to lanceolate, acute; corolla whitish, pink, or lavender, funnelform, the lobes greatly exceeding the tube, usually recurved when fully open; true corona absent, but with 5 corolline appendages on the tube, subulate, or bisected into filiform lobes, stamens short, mounted on the base of the corolla, anthers and filaments distinct, not joined into a single unit; pollen distinct as tetrads, not agglutinated into pollinia; pistils joined at base and apex, stigma large, globular. Fruit a single + boat-shaped follicle, woody with ribs or wings traversing the long axis; seeds numerous, small, comose.
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Habit
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Glabrous vines or climbing shrubs
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Distribution
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There are 2 species of Cryptostegia, one native to Madagascar, the other to India.
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Both are widely planted for ornament, but the name C. grandiflora is often mistakenly applied to both. The subfamily Periplocoideae, of which Cryptostegia is a member, is an in- teresting Old World assemblage of about two dozen genera. There is good evidence, both morphological and anatomical, for segregating the group as a distinct family, Periplocaceae.
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