Pagamea capitata

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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Interesting Facts

Description

Family Rubiaceae

The Rubiaceae are trees , shrubs , or infrequently herbs comprising about 450 genera and 6,500 species, including some lianous forms. The leaves are simple and usually entire, and are opposite or sometimes whorled ; stipules are present and interpetiolar . The flowers are nearly always bisexual and actinomorphic , often heterostylous, and usually are in cymose inflorescences. The calyx is mostly somewhat reduced and 4-5-lobed or sometimes the lobes are obsolete or rarely one of them greatly expanded and brightly colored . The sympetalous corolla is mostly 4-5-lobed, occasionally with 3 or up to 10 lobes. The androecium consists of as many stamens as corolla lobes and is adnate to the corolla tube or epigynous zone, alternate with the lobes. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2 or seldom more carpels, a single style, and a nearly always inferior ovary with the number of locules equaling the number of carpels, each with 1-many axile ovules. An epigynous nectary disk is usually present. The fruit is variable, sometimes forming multiples . -- Gerald Carr.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,438 meters (0 to 4,718 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

Similar Species

Members of the genus Pagamea

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Further Reading

• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 50 2004 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 145, p. 40, p. 71, p. 76, p. 90, p. 91, p. 95.
• Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 1111.
• Genus Labordia. Hawaiian Euphorbiaceae, Labiatae and Compositae. By Earl Edward Sherff. [Chicago]1939. url p. 623.
• Studies of American plants. by Paul C. Standley. 17 1937 Chicago [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1937] url p. 279.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 26, 2007:

• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3429683
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-145551
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14263207
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:546861-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1106030

Footnotes

1. Mean = 327.490 meters (1,074.442 feet), Standard Deviation = 362.370 based on 119 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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