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(Last Modified On 3/13/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/13/2013)
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Genus
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Sauvagesia L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 203, 1753.
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Synonym
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Sauvagea Neck., Elem. Bot. 2: 378, 1790. Roraimanthus Gleason, Phytologia 1: 39, 1933.
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Description
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Herbs or rarely low shrubs, glabrous; stems usually branched; roots fibrous. Leaves subsessile, the blades with the costa usually prominent above and below, the margin ciliate, the lateral veins sharply ascending; stipules persistent, ciliate. Inflorescences with the bostryces either axillary and fasciculate or terminal and paniculate, rarely solitary. Flowers pedicellate; sepals 5, quincuncial, subequal, expanded at anthesis, appressed and persistent in the fruit; petals, 5, imbricate in the bud, deciduous; segments of the exterior corona present or absent, usually filamentous, shorter than the interior corona, disposed in 1-3 continuous whorls, or fasciculate and opposite the stamens, persistent in the fruit; segments of the interior corona 5, free, petaloid; stamens 5, the filaments often longer than the anthers; ovary flask-shaped, 3-carpellate, the placentae parietal, the ovules oo, the style longer than the ovary, occasionally persistent in the unopened fruit. Capsules smooth, acute, the seeds round, reticulate, not winged.
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Habit
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Herbs shrubs
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Distribution
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Widely distributed throughout the tropics of the New World. Sauvagesia erecta may be native to Africa.
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Key
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a. Stipules with cilia bearing an obvious gland ..... 1. S. pulchella aa. Stipules with eglandular cilia. b. Herbs up to or exceeding 10 cm; exterior corona present. c. Bostryces axillary; herbs up to 0.5 dm; median leaves up to 1.3 cm wide ........2. S. erecta cc. Bostryces terminal; herbs up to 10 dm; median leaves 1.5-2.5 cm wide ........3. S. elata bb. Herbs up to 3-7 cm; exterior corona absent -4. S. tenella
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