Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
LEPISTEMON Blume, Bijdr. 722. 1825.
Tribe:
Ipomoeeae
Synonyms:
Lepidostemon Hassk., Cat. Hort. Bog. Alt. 140. 1844.
Nemodon Griff., Not. Pl. Asiat. 4: 286. 1854.
Type Species:
Lepistemon flavescens Blume [= L. binectariferum]
Habit:
Herbaceous or woody twiners, usually pubescent.
Leaves:
Leaves petiolate, ovate to orbicular, herbaceous, base cordate, margin entire or angulate-lobed.
Inflorescences:
Inflorescences axillary, dense, umbelliform cymes; sessile or pedunculate; bracts early deciduous, small.
Flowers:
Flower sepals subequal, apex acute or obtuse, persistent and slightly accrescent in fruit; corolla urceolate, limb shallowly 5-lobed, midpetaline bands pubescent outside; stamens included, filaments inserted near base of corolla, dilated basally into a large concave scale that arches over ovary, anthers narrowly elliptic to linear; pollen globular, pantoporate, finely spiny; pistil included, disc cupular, 5-lobed, or ring-like, ovary glabrous or pubescent, 2-celled, 4-ovuled, style 1, very short, stigmas 2, biglobose.
Pollen:
Pollen globular, pantoporate, finely spiny.
Fruits:
Capsule globose, 4-valved
Seeds:
Seeds 4 or fewer, glabrous or puberulous.
Distribution:
Africa, Asia and Australia. map
Number of Species:
6
References:
Staples, Kew Bull. 62: 223–232. 2007.
Ooststr. & Hoogland, Fl. Males. I, 4: 489. 1953.
R.C. Fang & G. Staples. 1995. Convolvulaceae In C.Y. Wu & P.H. Raven, Fl. China 16: 312.
Staples, Kew Bull. 62: 223–232. 2007.
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