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Calceolaria adenanthera bracteata

Description

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Herbs, sometimes shrubs , rarely trees ; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled , or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple or sometimes pinnately dissected . Inflorescences racemes , spikes, or thyrsoid panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect , usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic . Calyx often persistent , (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate . Corolla sympetalous ; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous , sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal , free or confluent . Nectary often present at base of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland . Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous , rarely 2 per locule, on axile placentas, anatropous or hemitropous . Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal , loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores or irregularly dehiscent , rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous , sometimes winged ; testa often reticulate ; hilum lateral or ventral ; endosperm fleshy or absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan ; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Taxonomy

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Similar Species

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Members of the genus Calceolaria

There are approximately 921 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. 'Briga Elite' · C. 'Bright Bikini' · C. 'Brownii' · C. 'Camden Hero' · C. 'Gaines' Yellow' · C. 'Goldcrest' · C. 'Hall's Spotted' · C. 'Hort's Variety' · C. 'John Innes' · C. 'Kentish Hero' · C. 'Sir Daniel Hall' · C. 'Snowballs' · C. 'Stamford Park' · C. 'Stamford Pink' · C. 'Sunset Red Bicolor' · C. 'Sunset' · C. 'Sunshine Yellow' · C. 'Walter Shrimpton' (Walter Shrimpton Calceolaria Calceolaria) · C. aberrans · C. abscondita · C. aconcaguina · C. acuminata · C. acutifolia · C. adenanthera · C. adenanthera bracteata · C. adenanthera subsp. bracteata · C. adenocalyx · C. adscendens · C. adscendens var. coquimbensis · C. adscendens var. subincisa · C. aequilateralis · C. aff. pavonii · C. aiseniana · C. ajugoides · C. alata · C. alata antioquiensis · C. alata occidentalis · C. alata subsp. antioquiensis · C. alata subsp. occidentalis · C. alba (White Slipper Flower) · C. albula · C. algarrobensis · C. alicahuensis · C. alternifolia · C. altissima · C. ambigua · C. amoena · C. amplexicaulis · C. anagalloides · C. andicola · C. andina · C. andina var. andicola · C. andina var. nana · C. andina var. verbascifolia · C. angustata · C. angustiflora · C. angustifolia · C. anisanthera · C. annua · C. anomala · C. aperta · C. aperta subsp. incana · C. appendiculata · C. apurimacensis · C. aquatica · C. arachnoidea (Capachito) · C. arachnoidea nubigena · C. arachnoidea subsp. nubigena · C. arachnoidea var. lanata · C. arachnoidea var. viridis · C. arachnoideo-crenatiflora · C. araucana · C. arborea · C. arborescens · C. arbuscula · C. argentea · C. ascendens · C. ascendens glandulifera · C. ascendens pristiphylla · C. ascendens subsp. glandulifera · C. ascendens subsp. pristiphylla · C. ascendens var. chiloensis · C. ascendens var. coquimbensis · C. ascendens var. glandulifera · C. ascendens var. pristiphylla · C. asperula · C. atahualpae · C. atahualpae subsp. witasekiana · C. atahualpae witasekiana · C. atkinsiana · C. atropurpurea · C. atrovirens · C. aurea · C. auriculata · C. australis · C. balaensis · C. ballotifolia · C. bangii · C. banksii 'Stamford Park' · C. barbata

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Last Revised: 2008-10-13