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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Lakela's Pinweed, Lakelas Pinweed
Description
Family Cistaceae
Herbs, subshrubs
, or shrubs
. Leaves usually opposite, rarely alternate, stipulate
or estipulate; leaf blade
simple
. Inflorescence 1-flowered or cymose
, sometimes racemelike or paniclelike. Flowers bisexual
, actinomorphic
. Sepals 5; outer 2 smaller, sometimes absent. Petals (3 or) 5, white, pink, yellow, or orange, sometimes with ± black blotches at base
, crumpled in bud, caducous
. Stamens many; filaments
free
, unequal in length
, inserted
in elongated or discoid
torus; anthers
2-thecate, longitudinally dehiscent
. Gynoecium of 3-5(-10) carpels; ovary superior, 1-loculed or imperfectly 3-5-loculed; placentas parietal
; ovules 2 to many, orthotropous
, rarely anatropous
; style 1; stigmas 3. Capsule leathery or woody, loculicidal. Seeds small, often angled
and coarse
on surface. Embryo often curved
, or circinate
; cotyledons narrow; endosperm powdery or cartilaginous
.
Eight genera and ca.
170 species: N Africa, SW Asia, and Europe, mostly in the Mediterranean region, extending to E Africa (Somalia) and C Asia, also in North and South America; one species in China.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Lechea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 32 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
L. cernua (Nodding Pinweed) · L. deckertii (Deckert Pinweed) · L. divaricata (Drysand Pinweed) · L. intermedia (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. depauperata (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. intermedia (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. intermedia Legg. ex Britton (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. juniperina (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. juniperina (Bickn.) B.L.Robins. (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. laurentiana (Largepod Pinweed) · L. intermedia var. laurentiana Hodgdon (Largepod Pinweed) · L. lakelae (Lakela's Pinweed) · L. maritima (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima Legg. ex B.S.P. var. maritima Legg. ex B.S.P. (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima Legg. ex B.S.P. var. subcylindrica Hodgdon (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima Legg. ex B.S.P. var. virginica Hodgdon (Virginia Pinweed) · L. maritima var. maritima (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima var. subcylindrica (Beach Pinweed) · L. maritima var. virginica (Virginia Pinweed) · L. mensalis (Chisos Mountain Pinweed) · L. minor (Thyme-Leaf Pinweed) · L. mucronata (Hairy Pinweed) · L. pulchella (Leggett's Pinweed) · L. pulchella var. moniliformis (Leggett's Pinweed) · L. pulchella var. pulchella (Leggett's Pinweed) · L. racemulosa (Illinois Pinweed) · L. san-sabeana (San Saba Pinweed) · L. sessiliflora (Pineland Pinweed) · L. stricta (Prairie Pinweed) · L. tenuifolia (Narrowleaf Pinweed) · L. torreyi (Piedmont Pinweed) · L. tripetala (Threepetal Pinweed)
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Further Reading
- Zhang Pengyun & Zhang Yaojia. 1990. Cistaceae. In: Li Hsiwen, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 50(2): 178-179.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- USDA PLANTS: USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2667761
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-503354
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:169299-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 503354
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 136859-2
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDCIS04050
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LELA11
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 41393
Footnotes
- Qiner Yang & Michael G. Gilbert "Cistaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 70. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
