Calceolaria obtusa

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Overview

Endangered

Description

Family Scrophulariaceae

Herbs, sometimes shrubs , rarely trees ; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled , or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple or sometimes pinnately dissected . Inflorescences racemes , spikes, or thyrsoid panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect , usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic . Calyx often persistent , (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate . Corolla sympetalous ; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous , sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal , free or confluent . Nectary often present at base of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland . Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous , rarely 2 per locule, on axile placentas, anatropous or hemitropous . Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal , loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores or irregularly dehiscent , rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous , sometimes winged ; testa often reticulate ; hilum lateral or ventral; endosperm fleshy or absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan ; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.[1]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Calceolaria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 806 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. aberrans · C. abscondita · C. aconcaguina · C. acuminata · C. acutifolia · C. adenanthera · C. adenanthera bracteata · C. adenocalyx · C. adscendens · C. adscendens var. coquimbensis · C. aequilateralis · C. aff. pavonii · C. aiseniana · C. ajugoides · C. alata · C. alata antioquiensis · C. alata occidentalis · C. alba (White Slipper Flower) · C. albula · C. algarrobensis · C. alicahuensis · C. alternifolia · C. altissima · C. ambigua · C. amoena · C. amplexicaulis · C. anagalloides · C. andicola · C. andina · C. andina var. andicola · C. andina var. nana · C. andina var. verbascifolia · C. angustata · C. angustiflora · C. angustifolia · C. anisanthera · C. annua · C. anomala · C. aperta · C. appendiculata · C. apurimacensis · C. aquatica · C. arachnoidea (Capachito) · C. arachnoidea nubigena · C. arachnoidea var. lanata · C. arachnoidea var. viridis · C. arachnoideo-crenatiflora · C. araucana · C. arborea · C. arborescens · C. arbuscula · C. argentea · C. ascendens · C. ascendens glandulifera · C. ascendens pristiphylla · C. ascendens var. chiloensis · C. ascendens var. coquimbensis · C. ascendens var. glandulifera · C. ascendens var. pristiphylla · C. asperula · C. atahualpae · C. atahualpae witasekiana · C. atkinsiana · C. atropurpurea · C. atrovirens · C. aurea · C. auriculata · C. australis · C. balaensis · C. ballotifolia · C. bangii · C. banksii 'Stamford Park' · C. barbata · C. bartsiaefolia · C. bartsiifolia · C. bellidifolia · C. bellidifolia var. angustifolia · C. belophora · C. bentae · C. benthami · C. benthamii · C. bergii · C. berteroi · C. biacuminata · C. bicolor · C. bicrenata · C. bifida · C. biflora (Topa-Topa) · C. biflora f. falklandica · C. biflora 'Goldcap' · C. biflora 'Goldcrest Amber' · C. biflora var. filicaulis · C. biflora var. obtusifolia · C. bigemina · C. bipinnatifida · C. bogotensis · C. boliviana · C. boliviana var. speciosa · C. borchersi · C. borsinii

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Further Reading

• Walter, K.S. and Gillett, H.J. (eds). 1998. 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Tsoong Puchiu & Yang Hanbi, eds. 1979. Scrophulariaceae (1). Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 1-431. Tsoong Puchiu, ed. 1963. Scrophulariaceae (2). Fl. Reipulb. Popularis Sin. 68: 1-449.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 18, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• León-Yánez, S. & Pitman, N. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:

• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5974570
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15845012
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:897167-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 41516-2
• IUCN ID: 46145
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1029098

Footnotes

1. Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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