Pterodiscus

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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

Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

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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• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4502201

Footnotes

1. 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]

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