Overview
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Description
Family Acanthaceae
The Acanthaceae are mostly herbs or shrubs comprising about 250 genera and 2,500 species, including twining forms. The leaves are simple , opposite and decussate; stipules are lacking. The flowers are bisexual , zygomorphic, and usually are associated with conspicuous , often brightly colored bracts. The calyx is usually deeply 4-5 lobed or sometimes is highly reduced with more numerous minute teeth. The corolla is sympetalous , usually 5-merous, mostly zygomorphic, and commonly 2 lipped. The androecium usually consists of 4 didynamous stamens or only 2 stamens adnate to the corolla tube or epigynous zone, alternate with the lobes . The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2 carpels, a single style, and a superior ovary with 2 locules, each with usually 2-10 axile ovules in one or two collateral vertical tiers . An annular nectary disk is usually found around the base of the ovary. The fruit is commonly an elastically dehiscent loculicidal capsule. The seed stalk or funiculus of each seed is modified into a hook shaped jaculator or retinaculum that functions in flinging out the seeds during dehiscence. -- Gerald Carr.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,310 meters (0 to 4,298 feet).[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:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Acanthaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- acanthacées, acanthus
- Subfamily:
Acanthoideae
()
- Tribe:
Acantheae
()
- Genus:
Crossandra
()
- R.A. Salisbury, 1806
- Specific epithet:
longipes
- S.Moore
- Botanical name: - Crossandra longipes S.Moore
- Specific epithet:
longipes
- S.Moore
- Genus:
Crossandra
(
- Tribe:
Acantheae
(
- Subfamily:
Acanthoideae
(
- Family:
Acanthaceae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : S.Moore Publication : Journ. Bot. xliv. 153 (1906)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Crossandra
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. ifundibuliformis 'Orange Marmalade' (Fire Cracker Plant) · C. infundibuliformis (Firecracker Flower) · C. infundibuliformis 'Green Ice' (Firecracker Flower) · C. infundibuliformis 'Lutea' (Firecracker Flower) · C. pungens (Firecracker Flower) · C. 'Tropic Yellow Splash' (Firecracker Flower)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 28, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5983621
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:47019-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 47019-1
- MoBot NameID: 101372
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1120964
Footnotes
- Mean = 584.200 meters (1,916.667 feet), Standard Deviation = 469.550 based on 10 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
