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Allowissadula
Gentes Herbarum 11: 337, figs. 3 – 5. 1978
Etymology: Greek allo- , different, and genus Wissadula
Subshrubs, herbage usually hairy, often viscid. Stems erect or spreading. Leaves: stipules caducous, filiform; blade ovate to subround, unlobed or 3-lobed, base cordate [obtuse or subtruncate], margins toothed. Inflorescences axillary and solitary flowers or cymes or terminal and racemes or panicles; involucellar bractlets absent. Flowers: calyx [5–]8–13.5[–apex]; filaments terminal and subterminal; ovary 5-carpellate; ovules 3 per carpel, pendulous or horizontally pendulous, 2 collateral in upper carpel cell, 1 in lower carpel cell; style 5-branched; stigmas capitate. Fruits schizocarps (± functionally capsular), erect, not inflated, turbinate, 5-lobed, starlike in cross section, papery to indurate, hairy; mericarps 5, 2-celled, lower cell ± trapezoidal, 1-seeded, upper cell angular-orbiculate, collaterally 2-seeded, cells sometimes separated by endoglossum. Seeds obovoid-reniform, glabrous. x = 8.
Distribution
sc United States, Mexico.
Discussion
Species 9 (2 in the flora).
References
None.
Lower Taxa
Key
1 | Herbage viscid, glandular hairs present; mericarps moderately constricted, endoglossum absent. | Allowissadula holosericea |
1 | Herbage not viscid, glandular hairs absent; mericarps strongly constricted, endoglossum present. | Allowissadula lozanoi |
Facts about "Allowissadula"
Author | David M. Bates + |
Authority | D. M. Bates + |
Distribution | sc United States + and Mexico. + |
Etymology | Greek allo- , different, and genus Wissadula + |
Illustrator | Linny Heagy + |
Publication title | Gentes Herbarum + |
Publication year | 1978 + |
Reference | None + |
Source xml | https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse grained fna xml/V6/V6 409.xml + |
Synonyms | Mallow + |
Taxon family | Malvaceae + |
Taxon name | Allowissadula + |
Taxon parent | Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae + |
Taxon rank | genus + |
Volume | Volume 6 + |