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Triumfetta

Plum. ex L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Malvales Family: Malvaceae Genus: Triumfetta

Description

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Growth Form: Annual or perennial herbs to subshrubs or shrubs, stellate pubescent throughout.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins usually 2-5-lobed or 2-5 toothed. Sometimes 3-veined or 5-veined from base. Petiolate (nearly all species). Stipules present.

Flowers: Flowers few in axillary cymes, +/- with an involucel subtending the calyx, the bracts distinct or basally connate. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx of 5 sepals, distinct, appendaged near apex, valvate in bud. Corolla actinomorphic to moderately zygomorphic, tubular to rotate or reflexed. corolla of 5 petals, obovate, distinct from each other but adnate at base to staminal column, convolute in bud, or absent. Stamens 10 to numerous, monadelphous, forming a staminal column; filaments terminating the staminal column or borne below a 5-dentate apex; anthers monothecal. Pollen globose, echinate. Ovary superior, 2-5-celled; ovules 2 per cell, the carpels borne in a single whorl or rarely seemingly superposed whorls, placentation axile; style exceeding the staminal column, unbranched and stigmatically lobed at apex or branched, filiform; stigma 2-5-toothed, terminal or decurrent.

Fruit: Globose capsules; indehiscent or separating into cocci; covered all over with stout hooked bristles. Seeds 1-2; when 2; separated by a false partition; reniform to turbinate; with or without endosperm.

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 444 (1753)

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