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Alectorurideae

(Tribe)

Overview

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A Tribe in the Kingdom Plantae.

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Taxonomy

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The Tribe Alectorurideae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genera

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Anthericum

Anthericum is a of about 300 species, rhizomatous perennial plants in the family Agavaceae. The species have rhizomatous or tuberous roots, long narrow leaves and branched stems carrying starry white flowers. The members of this genus occurs mainly in the tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar, but also represented in Europe. [more]

Arthropodium

Arthropodium is a of herbaceous perennial plants native to the Southern Hemisphere. It is sometimes placed in the family Asphodelaceae. [more]

Chlorophytum

Herbs perennial, rhizomatous. Rhizome often short, inconspicuous, sometimes thick, elongate. Roots usually ± thick or slightly fleshy. Leaves basal, subdistichous or fasciculate, sessile or petiolate, usually linear to elliptic-lanceolate, conduplicate, base sheathing. Scape axillary, proximally with bractlike cauline leaves. Inflorescence a terminal raceme or panicle; bracts small. Flowers bisexual; pedicel articulate. Perianth usually white; tepals 6, free, 3--7-veined, persistent or marcescent. Stamens 6, inserted at base of tepals; filaments filiform, usually slightly widened near middle; anthers nearly basifixed, introrse. Ovary 3-loculed; ovules 1 to several per locule. Style slender; stigma small. Fruit a capsule, acutely 3-angled, loculicidal. Seeds black coated, flattened.[1] [more]

Choisya

Choisya , also known as Mexican Orange, Mock Orange, Mexican Orange Blossom (C. ternata), Starleaf (C. dumosa), is a small genus of aromatic shrubs in the family Rutaceae, native to southern North America from the southwest United States (Arizona, New Mexico, Texas) and south through most of Mexico. Choisya is a popular ornamental plant in areas with mild winters, grown for its strongly aromatic foliage and flowers. The flowers are also valued for bee forage, producing abundant nectar. [more]

Chondropetalum

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Chonemorpha

Lianas stout, woody, with latex. Leaves large, opposite; interpetiolar lines and colleters present. Cymes lax, paniculate or racemose, terminal or subaxillary. Flowers large. Calyx tubular, shortly 5-toothed or 5-partite, basal glands large, denticulate. Corolla white or reddish, funnelform, tube cylindric, throat not scaly; lobes overlapping to right. Stamens inserted near base or middle of corolla tube; anthers sagittate, connivent, adherent to pistil head, cells spurred at base; disc ringlike, fleshy, shorter than ovary, apex 5-cleft. Ovaries 2, free; ovules numerous in each ovary. Style filiform; pistil head club-shaped, slightly thickened, apex 2-cleft. Follicles 2, elongated, cylindric. Seeds ovate-oblong, flat, short beaked, beak with a long coma.[2] [more]

Chordospartium

Chordospartium is a genus of in the Fabaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]

Chorisia

Ceiba (includes Chorisia) is the name of a genus of many species of large found in tropical areas, including Mexico, Central and South America, The Bahamas, Belize and the Caribbean, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. Some species can grow to 70 meters tall or more, with a straight, largely branchless trunk that culminates in a huge, spreading canopy, and buttress roots that can be taller than a grown person. The best-known, and most widely cultivated, species is Kapok, Ceiba pentandra. [more]

Christella

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Clivia

Clivia is a of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the family Amaryllidaceae. Common names include Kaffir lily and bush lily. [more]

Diospyros

Trees or shrubs, deciduous or evergreen. Terminal buds absent. Branchlet tips sometimes forming a spine. Leaves alternate, occasionally minutely translucent dotted or with gland pits. Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Male flowers in axillary cymes, usually on basal part of current year's branchlets, deciduous soon after anthesis; stamens 4 to numerous, often paired and forming 2 whorls; ovary rudimentary. Female flowers usually solitary, axillary; staminodes 1--16 or absent; stigma often 2-cleft. Calyx usually 3--5(--7) -lobed, sometimes truncate. Corolla urn-shaped, campanulate, or tubular, 3--5(--7) -lobed, deciduous. Berries fleshy to somewhat leathery, usually with an enlarged persistent calyx. Seeds 1--10(or more), often laterally compressed.[3] [more]

Ischnosiphon

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At least 72 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Ischnosiphon.

More info about the Genus Ischnosiphon may be found here.

Footnotes

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  1. Chen Sing-chi, Minoru N. Tamura "Chlorophytum". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 205. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  2. "Chonemorpha". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 170. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
  3. "Diospyros". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 215. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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Last Revised: September 22, 2009
2009/09/22 15:03:58