Cochlospermaceae
Trees (or shrubs), often deciduous, producing gum and an orange juice. Leaves spread, palmatilobed, often with domatia in the axils of the main ribs; stipules caducous. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual, showy, mostly golden-yellow, paniculate or racemose. Sepals 5 imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate or co...
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ftnaturalis:oai:repository.naturalis.nl:532616 2023-07-23T04:15:35+02:00 Cochlospermaceae Steenis, C.G.G.J. van 1948-01-01 application/pdf https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/532616 unknown https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/532616 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Flora Malesiana - Series 1, Spermatophyta vol. 4 no. 1, pp. 61-63 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1948 ftnaturalis 2023-07-01T18:32:32Z Trees (or shrubs), often deciduous, producing gum and an orange juice. Leaves spread, palmatilobed, often with domatia in the axils of the main ribs; stipules caducous. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual, showy, mostly golden-yellow, paniculate or racemose. Sepals 5 imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate or contorted, emarginate. Stamens ~, with free filaments, equal or subequal; anthers 2-celled, linear, basifixed, opening by introrse, short, often confluent pore-like slits. Ovary 1-celled with laminal placentas projecting into the cell, or perfectly or imperfectly 3-celled, the upper portion remaining 1-celled; ovules ~, style simple, stigma punctiform. Capsule 3—5-valved, valves of the endocarp separating from and alternating with those of the pericarp. Seeds covered by woolly hairs, mostly cochleate-reniform; endosperm copious, rich in oil; embryo large, conforming to the shape of the seed; cotyledons broad. Distr. Ca 15 spp., mostly in trop. and subtropical America, some in trop. Africa and SE. Asia, 3 species in N. Australia, rare in Malaysia; G. gillivrayi is possibly the only native Malaysian species. LAM assumed the genus to belong to the ‘antarctic’ type(Blumea 1 (1935) 135), but it is manifestly peri-tropical. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Naturalis Digital Academic Repository (National Museum of Natural History in the Netherlands) Antarctic The Antarctic |
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Trees (or shrubs), often deciduous, producing gum and an orange juice. Leaves spread, palmatilobed, often with domatia in the axils of the main ribs; stipules caducous. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual, showy, mostly golden-yellow, paniculate or racemose. Sepals 5 imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate or contorted, emarginate. Stamens ~, with free filaments, equal or subequal; anthers 2-celled, linear, basifixed, opening by introrse, short, often confluent pore-like slits. Ovary 1-celled with laminal placentas projecting into the cell, or perfectly or imperfectly 3-celled, the upper portion remaining 1-celled; ovules ~, style simple, stigma punctiform. Capsule 3—5-valved, valves of the endocarp separating from and alternating with those of the pericarp. Seeds covered by woolly hairs, mostly cochleate-reniform; endosperm copious, rich in oil; embryo large, conforming to the shape of the seed; cotyledons broad. Distr. Ca 15 spp., mostly in trop. and subtropical America, some in trop. Africa and SE. Asia, 3 species in N. Australia, rare in Malaysia; G. gillivrayi is possibly the only native Malaysian species. LAM assumed the genus to belong to the ‘antarctic’ type(Blumea 1 (1935) 135), but it is manifestly peri-tropical. |
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Steenis, C.G.G.J. van |
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Steenis, C.G.G.J. van Cochlospermaceae |
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Steenis, C.G.G.J. van |
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Steenis, C.G.G.J. van |
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Cochlospermaceae |
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Cochlospermaceae |
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Cochlospermaceae |
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Cochlospermaceae |
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Cochlospermaceae |
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cochlospermaceae |
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1948 |
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https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/532616 |
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Antarctic The Antarctic |
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Antarctic The Antarctic |
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Antarc* Antarctic |
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Antarc* Antarctic |
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Flora Malesiana - Series 1, Spermatophyta vol. 4 no. 1, pp. 61-63 |
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https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/532616 |
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