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Description
Family Eriocaulaceae
Herbs perennial
or annual
. Leaves in a rosette, grasslike, linear
, occasionally thinly filiform
, often thin and transparent, fenestrate, base
sheathing
. Inflorescences capitate, globose
to ovoid
; scapes thin, twisted, angled
, base surrounded by a bladeless, tubular
sheath
. Flowers 2- or 3-merous, bracteate
, with both sexes usually in same head
. Male flowers: sepals 2 or 3, connate
or free
; petals 2 or 3, often inconspicuous; stamens 6. Female flowers: sepals 2 or 3, free or connate; petals absent to 4, free; ovary (1--) 3-loculed; ovules 1 per locule, basal; style 1, 1--3-branched. Fruit a capsule, thin, loculicidal. Seeds small; testa usually reticulate
and prickly; endosperm with abundant starch
grains.
Ten genera and ca.
1150 species: mainly in tropical
and subtropical
regions; one genus and 35 species (13 endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Commelinanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Poales
()
- Small, 1903
- Family:
Eriocaulaceae
()
- Richard, 1811 ex Martinov, 1820, nom. cons.
- Pipewort Family
- Genus:
Carptotepala
()
- Specific epithet:
insolita
- Moldenke
- Botanical name: - Carptotepala insolita Moldenke
- Specific epithet:
insolita
- Moldenke
- Genus:
Carptotepala
(
- Family:
Eriocaulaceae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Commelinanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Moldenke Publication : in Fieldiana, Bot., xxviii. No. 1, 114 (1951)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Carptotepala
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Further Reading
- Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 1157.
- Ma Weiliang. 1997. Eriocaulaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 20--63.
Notes
Contributors
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3484887
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15475538
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:334829-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 47708-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 724586
Footnotes
- Wei-liang Ma, Zhixiang Zhang & Thomas Stützel "Eriocaulaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 7. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
