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.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- 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:
Lamiidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Lamianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Scrophulariales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Acanthaceae
()
- Durande, 1782, Nom. Cons.
- Acanthus Family
- Genus:
Mendoncia
()
- Specific epithet:
bahiensis
- Profice
- Botanical name: - Mendoncia bahiensis Profice
- Specific epithet:
bahiensis
- Profice
- Genus:
Mendoncia
(
- Family:
Acanthaceae
(
- Order:
Scrophulariales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Mendoncia
There are approximately 75 species in this genus:
M. albida · M. antioquiensis · M. aspera · M. aurea · M. bahiensis · M. belizensis · M. bivalvis · M. blanchetiana · M. brenesii · M. cardonae · M. coccinea · M. combretoides · M. cordata · M. coriacea · M. costaricana · M. cowanii · M. crenata · M. flagellaris · M. floribunda · M. gigas · M. gilgiana · M. glabra · M. glabrescens · M. glomerata · M. gracilis · M. guatemalensis · M. hirsuta · M. hoffmannseggiana · M. iodioides · M. killipii · M. klugii · M. lindaviana · M. lindavii · M. litoralis · M. madagascariensis · M. meyeniana · M. meyeniana var. glabra · M. microchlamys · M. mirabilis · M. mollis · M. mutisii · M. neblinensis · M. obovata · M. odorata · M. orbicularis · M. pedunculata · M. pennellii · M. perrottetiana · M. peruviana · M. phalacra · M. phytocrenoides · M. pilosa · M. puberula · M. puberula var. micropus · M. pubescens · M. reticulata · M. retusa · M. robusta · M. rotundifolia · M. schomburgkiana · M. sellowiana · M. sericea · M. smithii · M. speciosa · M. spraguei · M. sprucei · M. squamuligera · M. tarapotana · M. tetragona · M. tonduzii · M. tovarensis · M. trichota · M. velloziana · M. villosa · M. vincaeflora
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 20, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 20, 2007:
- The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3435494
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14826365
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:995551-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1086142
