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Description
Family Violaceae
Herbs annual
or perennial
, shrubs
, or subshrubs
, sometimes scandent
, rarely small trees
. Leaves simple
, usually alternate, sometimes opposite, with small or leaflike stipules, petiolate
, margin
entire, serrate, or dissected
. Flowers bisexual
or unisexual
, rarely polygamous, actinomorphic
or zygomorphic, solitary or in axillary
or terminal
, spicate
, paniculate
, or racemose inflorescences, 2-bracteolate, sometimes cleistogamous
. Sepals 5, equal or unequal, imbricate, persistent
. Petals 5, imbricate or convolute, unequal, anterior one usually larger than others, saccate
, gibbous
or spurred
at base
. Stamens 5; anthers
erect
, free
or connivent or connate
, connectives
often dilated
into membranous appendages
; filaments
very short or absent, anterior 2 stamens with spurlike nectary
at base. Ovary superior, 1-loculed, 3-5-carpelled, syncarpous
, with 3-5 parietal
placentae each with 1 to many anatropous ovules
; style simple; stigmas variously shaped. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, usually with elastic and abaxially carinate
valves
, rarely baccate
. Seeds often carunculate; testa hard, nitid
, often with oily bodies, sometimes alate
; endosperm copious
, fleshy
; embryo erect.
Twenty-two genera and 900-1000 species: worldwide, but particularly in tropical regions
; three genera and 101 species (36 endemic, three introduced
) 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:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Violanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Malpighiales
()
- C. Martius, 1835
- Family:
Violaceae
()
- Batsch, 1802
- violets, violettes
- Subfamily:
Violoideae
()
- Tribe:
Violeae
()
- Genus:
Schweiggeria
()
- K.P.J. Sprengel, 1820
- Specific epithet:
pauciflora
- Lindl.
- Botanical name: - Schweiggeria pauciflora Lindl.
- Specific epithet:
pauciflora
- Lindl.
- Genus:
Schweiggeria
(
- Tribe:
Violeae
(
- Subfamily:
Violoideae
(
- Family:
Violaceae
(
- Order:
Malpighiales
(
- Superorder:
Violanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Lindl. Publication : Edwards's Bot. Reg. 27: t. 40 1841
Similar Species
Members of the genus Schweiggeria
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Further Reading
- The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette. 1849 London: published for the proprietors, 1844-1873. url p. 679.
- Wang Chingrui. 1991. Violaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 51: i-v, 1-148.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 22, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10818381
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15898034
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:867484-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 867484-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3718305
Footnotes
- Yousheng Chen, Qiner Yang, Hideaki Ohba & Vladimir V. Nikitin "Violaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 72, 138. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
