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Nama sericeum

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Description

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Family Boraginaceae

Herbs perennial , biennial, or annual , less often lianas, shrubs , or trees , usually bristly or scabrous-pubescent. Leaves simple , exstipulate , alternate, rarely opposite, entire or serrate at margin . Inflorescences often double scorpioid cymes, rarely solitary; bracts present or absent. Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic , rarely zygomorphic. Calyx usually 5-parted or lobed , mostly persistent . Corolla tubular , campanulate , rotate, funnelform , or salverform ; tube appendages 5, rarely more, mostly trapeziform, rarely absent, sometimes a ring of hairs present; limb usually 5-parted; lobes overlapping, rarely twisted in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on corolla tube or rarely at throat , included or rarely exserted; anthers introrse , 2-loculed, usually dorsifixed at base , less often medifixed , dehiscence longitudinal . Nectaries at base of corolla tube or on disc below ovary. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate; locules 2 and each with 2 ovules, or 4 and each with 1 ovule; ovules nearly atropous , semianatropous, or anatropous . Style terminal or gynobasic , branched or not. Gynobase flat, fastigiate , or subulate . Fruit 1-4-seeded drupes or nutlets (mericarps) ; nutlets mostly dry, often ornamented with wings , prickles and/or glochids (stiff bristles with barbed or anchorlike tips ) . Seeds vertical or oblique , coat membranous; embryo straight, less often curved ; cotyledons flat, fleshy .

About 156 genera and 2500 species: temperate and tropical regions , centered in the Mediterranean region; 47 genera and 294 species in China, of which four genera and 156 species are endemic.[1]

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Willd. ex Schult. Publication : Syst. vi. 189.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Nama

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

N. aretioides (Ground Nama) · N. aretioides var. aretioides (Ground Nama) · N. aretioides var. californicum (Ground Nama) · N. aretioides var. multiflorum (Ground Nama) · N. arizonicum (Arizona Fiddleleaf) · N. californicum (California Fiddleleaf) · N. carnosum (Sand Fiddle-Leaf) · N. demissum (Leafy Nama) · N. demissum Gray var. covillei Brand (Coville's Purplemat) · N. demissum Gray var. demissum Gray (Purple Mat) · N. demissum var. covillei (Coville's Purplemat) · N. demissum var. demissum (Purple Mat) · N. densum (Leafy Nama) · N. densum var. densum (Leafy Fiddleleaf) · N. densum var. densum J.G.Lemmon (Leafy Fiddleleaf) · N. densum var. parviflorum (Leafy Fiddleleaf) · N. depressum (Depressed Fiddle-Leaf) · N. dichotomum (Livemore Fiddleleaf) · N. havardii (Havard's Fiddle-Leaf) · N. hispida (Bristly Nama) · N. hispidum (Bristly Nama) · N. jamaicense (Jamaica Weed) · N. lobbii (Lobb's Fiddle-Leaf) · N. macranthum (Royal Fiddleleaf) · N. parvifolium (Small-Leaf Fiddle-Leaf) · N. pusillum (Egg-Leaf Fiddleleaf) · N. retrorsum (Betatakin Fiddleleaf) · N. rothrockii (Baldhead Nama) · N. sandwicense (Hawaiian Fiddleleaf) · N. sandwicensis (Hinahina Kahakai) · N. serpylloides (Velvet Fiddleleaf) · N. stenocarpum (Mud Fiddle-Leaf) · N. stenophyllum (Slimpod Fiddleleaf) · N. stevensii (Stevens Fiddleleaf) · N. torynophyllum (Mat Fiddle-Leaf) · N. undulatum (Wavy Fiddle-Leaf) · N. xylopodum (Yellowseed Fiddleleaf)

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

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Footnotes

  1. Gelin Zhu, Harald Riedl & Rudolf V. Kamelin "Boraginaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 329. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/22/2012