Interesting Facts
Description
Family Pedaliaceae
Herbs annual
or perennial
, rarely shrubs
or trees
, sometimes with swollen stems. Leaves opposite, sometimes alternate on upper part of stem, densely covered with 4-merous mucilaginous
glands
; stipules absent. Flowers zygomorphic, solitary, axillary
, rarely in few-flowered cymes. Pedicel with extrafloral nectaries. Calyx (4 or) 5-parted. Corolla bilabiate or obscurely so; lobes
5, imbricate. Stamens 4 and didynamous
, sometime 2; staminodes usually 1; anthers
2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Disc fleshy
. Ovary superior or rarely inferior, 2- or 4-locular; placentation axile
; ovules 2 to numerous
, anatropous
. Style filiform
; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit dehiscent
or indehiscent, winged
or usually with horns or hooks. Seeds 1 to many in each locule.
About 13 or 14 genera and 62-85 species: primarily tropical
and subtropical
parts of the Old World, especially Africa; two genera and two species in China.[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:
Pedaliaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1810, nom. cons.
- pedaliums
- Genus:
Pterodiscus
()
- Specific epithet:
somaliensis
- Baker ex Stapf
- Botanical name: - Pterodiscus somaliensis Baker ex Stapf
- Specific epithet:
somaliensis
- Baker ex Stapf
- Genus:
Pterodiscus
(
- Family:
Pedaliaceae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Superorder:
Lamianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Baker ex Stapf Publication : Fl. Trop. Afr. [Oliver et al. ] 4(2.3): 544 1906 [Jun 1906]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Pterodiscus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
P. levis (White-Barred Sneaky-Wrasse)
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1907 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 100.
- Oliver, D. Flora of tropical Africa /by Daniel Oliver. .. assisted by other botanists. 4 1905-1906 London: L. Reeve and co., 1868-1999. url p. 541.
- Tao Deding. 1990. Pedaliaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 63-66.
Notes
Contributors
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10742852
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15729738
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:675924-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 675924-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3611481
Footnotes
- Zhi-Yun Zhang & Heidrun E. K. Hartmann "Pedaliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 226. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
