Overview
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Lianas. Leaves opposite, long petiolate. Cymes extra-axillary, pendulous, rachis laxly branched. Calyx with 5 glands at base. Corolla tube cylindric, with enlarged base, throat sometimes constricted; lobes patent, twisted to right. Corona lobes 5, adnate to base of staminal tube, margin and apex free, erect, oblong, obtuse, with ligulate inner lobes adnate to near apex, or corona lobes notched. Filaments connate into a tube; membranous anther appendages incurved; pollinia 2 per pollinarium, oblong, erect. Stigma head convex or conical. Follicles thick, acuminate, smooth. Seeds comose.
About ten species: Asia, tropical Africa, Oceania; three species in China.[1]
Taxonomy
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The Genus Telosma is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 15 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Telosma: T. accedens · T. accedeus · T. africana (African Telosma) · T. africanum · T. angustiloba · T. cathayensis · T. cordata (Cowslip Creeper) · T. crispipetala · T. madagascariensis · T. minor · T. odoratissima · T. pallida · T. parviflora · T. procumbens · T. unyorensis
Footnotes
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- "Telosma". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 241. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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