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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 9/17/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/17/2013)
Genus Richardia L.
PlaceOfPublication Sp. P1. 1: 330. 1753
Synonym not Richardia Kunth, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. 4: 433, 437, 1818. (=Zantedeschla Sprengel), not Richardia Adans. Fam. 2: 158. 1763. Nomen rejic. Richardsoniana Kunth ex H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. PI. 3: 350. 1819. Schiedia Bartl. Ord. 210. 1830, not Cham. & Schl. 1826; not Richard 1834. TYPE: S. martinicensis (DC.) A. Richard. Tertrea DC., Prodr. 4: 481. 1830. TYPE: T. martinicensis DC.
Description Plants herbaceous, the stems terete, usually densely pubescent. Leaves with the blades usually wide; stipules adnate to the petioles, the sheath multisetose. Inflorescences terminal, capitate, sessile, subtended by conspicuous foliose in- volucral bracts. Flowers with the calycine cup turbinate or subglobose, the lobes 4-8, connate. Fruits partly superior, dry, the cocci indehiscent; seeds with the strophiole very narrow and short, the cells of the testa isodiametric to contorted.
Habit herb
Distribution known from the United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West Indies.
Note There are about 5 species in the genus.
Reference Lewis, Walter H. & Royce L. Oliver. 1974. Revision of Richardia (Rubiaceae). Brittonia 26: 271-301.
 
 
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