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Aristolochia

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Magnoliids Order: Piperales Family: Aristolochiaceae Genus: Aristolochia

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Lianas, herbs, shrubs, or trees.

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Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins usually entire. Usually palmately veined. Petiolate, petiole sometimes very short. Stipules usually absent.

Flowers: Flowers in solitary or in fascicles in the upper leaves. Flowers bisexual (perfect), zygomorphic. Calyx 3-merous, petaloid, S-shaped or U-shaped, ± 3-lobed at summit or straight and with a single unilateral terminal lobe. Corolla of 3 petals, small or vestigial, or absent. Stamens 6; anthers sessile, adnate to stylar column. Ovary inferior or partly so, 4–6-carpellate, with as many cells, sometimes partitions incomplete; ovules numerous, on axile or parietal placentas, anatropous.

Fruit: Septicidal capsules; 6–lobed or 6–angled. Seeds numerous.

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Aristolochia usually is polinated by flies attracted to the carrion-like odor and purplish to brownish color of the flowers. Name derived from the Greek aristos, best, and lochia, delivery, based on its supposed value in childbirth and the f
  • Description digitized by Pumehana
  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • usually is pollinated by flies attracted to the carrion-like odor and purplish to brownish color of the flowers

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 960 (1753)

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

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