Overview
Herbs, perennial, epipetric, rhizomatous, stemless. Leaves few to many, basal; leaf blade pubescent, margin glandular pubescent, base broadly cuneate to rounded . Inflorescences lax, axillary, 1-4-flowered cymes; bracts 1 or 2, opposite. Calyx actinomorphic, 5-sect from base; segments equal. Corolla purplish, zygomorphic, inside sparsely puberulent toward apex of tube; tube near ly salverform, cylindric below, not swollen, slightly shorter than to nearly equalling limb, ca. 1.2 mm in diam.; limb 2-lipped; adaxial lip 2-sect from near base, slightly shorter than abaxial lip; abaxial lip 3-sect from near base, lobes equal, apex acute. Stamens 2, adnate to abaxial side of corolla tube above middle, included; anthers dorsifixed, coherent by adaxial surfaces, thecae divaricate, confluent at apex, dehiscing longitudinally; connective not projecting; staminodes 2, adnate to adaxial side of corolla tube. Disc ringlike. Ovary narrowly ovoid, 1-loculed; placentas 2, parietal, slightly projecting inward, 2-cleft. Stigma 1, terminal, disclike, undivided. Capsule straight in relation to pedicel, narrowly ellipsoid, nearly as long as calyx, dehiscing loculicidally to base; valves 4, strai ght, not twisted. Seeds unappendaged.
* One species: endemic to China.[1]
Taxonomy
The Genus Dolicholoma is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Dolicholoma: D. jasminiflorum
Footnotes
- Wencai Wang, Kai-yu Pan, Zhen-yu Li, Anna L. Weitzman & Laurence E. Skog "Dolicholoma". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 360. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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