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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 3/12/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 3/12/2013)
Genus WISSADULA Medic.
PlaceOfPublication Malv.-Fam. 24. 1787.
Description Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs, the indumentum usually of stellate hairs. Leaves petiolate, the stipules caducous, the blade cordate or truncate at the base, the mar- gins entire or dentate. Flowers axillary and solitary, or in terminal, paniculiform inflorescences; epicalyx wanting; calyx 5-merous, campanulate or somewhat turbi- nate, lobed to about or to below the middle, persistent; corolla small or medium- sized, the petals 5, the base adnate to the staminal tube; staminal tube short, ventricose, filamentiferous at the apex, the filaments relatively numerous, the anthers reniform; ovary of 5, rarely 3-4 or 6 carpels, each carpel (1)3-ovulate, the ovules anatropous, pendulous; styles isomerous with the carpels, the stigmas capi- tate. Fruits more or less stellate-turbinate or globose, of 5, rarely 3-4 or 6 mericarps, these angulate to rostrate apically and with the beaks pointing outwards, more or less completely divided into 2 superposed cavities by tranversal or oblique constric- tion of the lateral walls, the lower cavity 1-seeded, the upper with 2 collateral seeds, ultimately incompletely 2-valvate; seeds subglobose-reniform, pubescent; embryo curved, the albumen scant; cotyledons plicate.
Habit Herbs shrubs
Distribution A genus of some 40 species, predominantly American, but with a few species (perhaps only 1) known in the Old World tropics.
Reference Fries in 1908 (K. Sv. Vetenskapsakad. Handl. [ser. 4] 43(4): 1-95).
Distribution The range of the genus in America is from southern Texas and the West Indies to Argentina. Three species occur in Panama.
Key a. Leaf blades narrowly triangular to triangular; pedicels elongate, filiform, up to 5 cm long .-. 1. W. PERIPLOCIFOLIA aa. Leaf blades narrowly to broadly ovate or oblong-ovate. b. Leaf blades ovate to broadly ovate, deeply cordate and with the basal lobes often overlapping, velvety on both sides, the lower surface densely whitish- stellate-tomentellous; pedicels 0.5-2.5 cm long, to 3.5 cm long in fruit -..-.. . ..- ..-....-.. 2. W. AMPLISSIMA bb. Leaf blades ovate or oblong-ovate, sometimes narrowly so, rounded or truncate or shallowly cordate with a very open sinus at the base, scabrid- ulous above, the lower surface with 2 tiers of stellate hairs, the lower tier minutely whitish- or canescent-tomentellous, the upper one ferruginous- pubescent with longer, stellate hairs; pedicels 0.5-1 cm long or shorter, slightly longer in fruit .... .. ... 3. W. EXCELSIOR
 
 
 
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