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Description
Family Polemoniaceae
Herbs annual
or perennial
, rarely subshrubs
or vines
. Leaves alternate or opposite, sessile to petiolate
, simple
, pinnatifid
to palmately lobed
, or compound
. Inflorescences determinate, corymbose
, paniculate
, or capitate, or flowers solitary. Flowers (4- or) 5-merous. Calyx gamosepalous
, cylindric
to campanulate
; tube
herbaceous throughout and papery
in fruit or with herbaceous midveins separated by translucent
membranes
distended
or ruptured in fruit; lobes
often scarious
margined
. Corolla gamopetalous, actinomorphic
or zygomorphic, rotate to funnelform
or salverform
; lobes overlapping in bud. Stamens inserted
at same or different levels on corolla at base
, alternate with corolla lobes, exserted to included
; filaments
equal to unequal, filiform
. Ovary superior, (2- or) 3-locular, placentation axile
; ovules 1 to many per locule. Style 1; stigma lobes (2 or) 3. Fruit a capsule. Seeds globose
, ovoid
, or fusiform
, sometimes winged
, often sticky when wet.
Nineteen genera and 320-350 species: North and South America, a few species native to temperate
Asia and Europe; one genus, Polemonium, and three species in China. Cobraea scandens Cavanilles (a perennial vine with violet campanulate corollas ca.
5 cm) and three species of Phlox, P. drummondii Hooker, P. paniculata Linnaeus, and P. subulata Linnaeus (herbs with white to red, salverform corollas and unequally inserted stamens), are cultivated in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Solananae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Ericales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Polemoniaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- phlox
- Subfamily:
Cobaeoideae
()
- Genus:
Cobaea
()
- Cavanilles, 1791
- Specific epithet:
aequatoriensis
- Aspl.
- Botanical name: - Cobaea aequatoriensis Aspl.
- Specific epithet:
aequatoriensis
- Aspl.
- Genus:
Cobaea
(
- Subfamily:
Cobaeoideae
(
- Family:
Polemoniaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Asplund Publication : in Svensk Bot. Tidskr. xlviii. 550 (1954)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Cobaea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. scandens (Cathedral Bells) · C. scandens 'Alba' (Cathedral Bells)
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Further Reading
- IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
- Fang Rhui-cheng & Huang Shu-hua in Wu Cheng-yih, ed. 1979. Polemoniaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(1): 155-160.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 28, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Santiana, J. & Pitman, N. 2004. Cobaea aequatoriensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 20, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5956471
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15370879
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:688763-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 61906-2
- IUCN ID: 201010
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1028933
Footnotes
- Ruizheng Fang & Dieter H. Wilkins "Polemoniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 326. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
