Alloplectus herthae

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Description

Family Gesneriaceae

Herbs, shrubs , or rarely trees . Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, whorled or basal, rosette forming; exstipulate ; usually simple , rarely shallowly to deeply lobed , pinnately or rarely palmately veined. Inflorescences usually cymes, rarely racemes , axillary , often near apex and appearing terminal ; usually pedunculate . Flowers perfect , zygomorphic, seldom actinomorphic . Calyx actinomorphic, rarely zygomorphic; usually (4 or) 5-divided. Corolla gamopetalous, zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic; usually 2-lipped. Fertile stamens 2 or 4, then often didynamous , rarely 5, epipetalous ; anthers free or coherent, thecae 2, parallel, divergent, or divaricate ; staminodes 1-3 or absent. Disc ringlike to cupular, rarely absent. Ovary superior in all Old World taxa [half inferior, or inferior], 1-loculed; gynophore seldom present; placentas (1 or) 2, parietal , rarely 2-loculed, placenta 1 per locule and axile ; ovules numerous , anatropous . Style 1; stigmas 1 or 2. Fruit usually capsular , loculicidal, septicidal , or circumscissile, rarely a berry, indehiscent. Seeds numerous, fusiform to ellipsoid or ovoid , minute, sometimes with appendages at 1 or both ends, with or without endosperm; embryo straight, cotyledons equal or unequal after germination.

About 133 genera and 3000 species: Africa, Central and South America, E and S Asia, S Europe, Oceania; 56 genera (25 endemic) and 442 species (354 endemic) in China.

A few foreign well-known ornamental species are cultivated in China, including the florist's gloxinia, Sinningia speciosa (Loddiges) Hiern, and African violet, Saintpaulia ionantha Wendland.

The two ovary carpels may each produce a stigma; these stigmas are fused into a single structure. Some students of Gesneriaceae have considered the stigma to be single and either simple (capitate) or 2-lobed, whereas others consider each of the two stigmas as units . We have maintained the latter usage , but a family-wide investigation of stigma development is needed. The distinction can be blurred, however, because the stigmas may be completely fused into one with a capitate apex (as in Didymocarpus) or one of the two carpels or stigmas may be aborted resulting in a single stigma that may or may not be 2-lobed.[1]

Habitat

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Alloplectus herthae Mansf.

Notes

Publishing author : Mansf. Publication : Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin xiv. 38 (1938)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Alloplectus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 149 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. altescandens · A. ambiguus · A. ambiguus Urb. var. chlorosepalus Urb. · A. ambiguus Urb. var. erythrosepalus Urb. · A. ambiguus var. chlorosepalus · A. ambiguus var. erythrosepalus · A. ambonensis · A. amgibuus · A. angustifolius · A. aquatilis · A. aureonitens · A. baguensis · A. bicolor · A. bolivianus · A. calcaratus · A. calochlamys · A. calotrichus · A. capitatus · A. carpishensis · A. chrysanthus · A. circinatus · A. circinnatus · A. coccineus · A. coccineus (Aubl.) Mart. ex G.Don var. fusco-maculatus Leeuwenb. · A. concolor · A. congestiflorus · A. congestus · A. coriaceus · A. crenatilobus · A. cristatus · A. cristatus (L.) Mart. ex G.Don var. brevicalyx Morton · A. cristatus (L.) Mart. ex G.Don var. crenatus Morton · A. cristatus (L.) Mart. ex G.Don var. epirotes Leeuwenb. · A. cristatus var. brevicalyx · A. cristatus var. crenatus · A. cristatus var. epirotes · A. cubensis · A. cucullatus · A. cucullatus Morton var. substrigosus Morton · A. cucullatus var. substrigosus · A. darienensis · A. dariensis · A. deltoideus · A. dichrous · A. dielsii · A. dimidiatus · A. dimorphobracteatus · A. discolor · A. dodsonii · A. domingensis · A. domingensis Urb. var. microphyllus Morton · A. doratostylus · A. erythroloma · A. fimbriatus · A. forseithii · A. fraternus · A. glaber · A. glabrescens · A. grandicalyx · A. grandifolius · A. grisebachianus · A. grisebachianus (Kuntze) Urb. var. ochrotrichus Urb. · A. guatemalensis · A. guianensis · A. herthae · A. hirsutus · A. hirtellus · A. hirtellus (Schott) Preston ex Hoehne forma crassifolius Hoehne · A. hirtellus (Schott) Preston ex Hoehne forma hirtella Hoehne · A. hirtellus (Schott) Preston ex Hoehne forma umbrophilus Hoehne · A. hispidus · A. hoppii · A. ichthyoderma · A. ichthyoderma Hanst. var. hirsutulus Morton · A. ichthyoderma Hanst. var. hirsutulus Morton forma rubescens Morton · A. ichthyoderma Hanst. var. pallidus Morton · A. ichthyoderma var. hirsutulus · A. ichthyoderma var. pallidus · A. inflatus · A. kunthii · A. lanatus · A. lindenii · A. lynchei · A. lynchii · A. macranthus · A. macrophyllus · A. martinianus · A. medusaeus · A. melittifolius · A. meridensis · A. metamorphophyllus · A. microsepalus · A. multiflorus · A. nummularia · A. oblongicalyx · A. oinochrophyllus · A. ornatus · A. pallidus · A. panamensis · A. paramicola

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Further Reading

• Mansfeld, R. (1938a): Gesneriaceae - Notizblatt des Königlichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin 14 No121, pp. 37-39
• Wang Wentsai, Pan Kaiyu, & Li Zhenyu. 1990. Gesneriaceae. In: Wang Wentsai, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 69: 125-581.

Notes

Contributors

• Clark, J.L., Skog, L.E. & Pitman, N. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5988251
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:377959-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 377959-1
• IUCN ID: 45294
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 716822

Footnotes

1. Wencai Wang, Kai-yu Pan, Zhen-yu Li, Anna L. Weitzman & Laurence E. Skog "Gesneriaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 244. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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