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Thunbergia

Retz. (1776)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Lamiales Family: Acanthaceae Genus: Thunbergia

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Vines, herbs, or shrubs.

Stems: Stems articulate (jointed), often twining.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite and decussate (pairs of leaves alternating 90 degrees between nodes). Margins entire to hastate. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal or axillary racemes or solitary in the leaf axils. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Each subtended by 2 large bracts. Calyx small, ring-like or 5–16 lobed. Corolla 5-lobed, showy, white, blue, yellow, or orange, the tube curved, swollen on 1 side. Stamens 4, in pairs, inserted on the corolla alternate with the lobes, sometimes 1 or more reduced to staminodes; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate; ovule placentation axile; style filiform, simple.

Fruit: Capsules with two cells; usually dehiscing explosively; subglobose; with a conspicuous sterile beak 1–2 cm long. Seeds not on a modified funiculus that ejects the seeds from the capsule.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

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Natural History

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Notes

  • A genus of warm parts of central and southern Africa, Madagascar, and Asia. Along with several other genera, Thunbergia is often segregated from the Acanthaceae as the Thunberbiaceae. They are anomalous in the Acanthaceae, but detailed embryologica
  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada

Bibliography

Name Published In: Physiogr. Sälsk. Handl. 1: 163 (1776)

Other References

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., & Sohmer, S. H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Vols. 1 and 2 (No. Edn 2). University of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum Press.

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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