Stictocardia
Accepted name/Authority/Place of publication:
STICTOCARDIA Hallier f., Bot.Jahrb. Syst. 18: 159. 1894.
Tribe:
Ipomoeeae
Type Species:
Stictocardia tiliifolia (Desr.) Hallier f.
Habit:
Twiners, woody or herbaceous.
Leaves:
Leaves petiolate, ovate to circular, underside dotted with minute glands, as black dots in dried specimens, base usually cordate, margin entire.
Inflorescences:
Inflorescences axillary, cymose, 1- to many-flowered, peduncled; bracts early deciduous, small.
Flowers:
Flowers showy; sepals ovate to elliptic or circular, equal or slightly unequal, much enlarged in fruit, subcoriaceous, abaxial surface glandular punctate, margin membranous, apex obtuse to emarginate; corolla funnelform, midpetaline bands pilose and with minute glands; stamens included, filaments filiform, inserted near corolla base; pollen globular, pantoporate, finely spiny; pistil included, disc annular, ovary glabrous, 4-celled, 4-ovuled, style 1, stigma 2-globular.
Pollen:
Pollen globular, pantoporate.
Fruits:
Fruit enclosed by enlarged calyx, globose; pericarp thin, eroding irregularly between septa to produce a lantern-like effect.
Seeds:
Seeds 4 or fewer, pubescent.
Distribution:
Distributed in Africa, Madagascar, and Asia; 1 species pantropical on sea coasts. map
Countries:
Madagascar
Thailand
Malaysia
U.S.A. (Hawaii)
Number of Species:
12
References:
Hallier f., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 18: 159. 1894.
Ooststr., Blumea 5: 346. 1943; Fl. Males. I, 4: 491. 1953.
R.C. Fang & Staples in C.Y. Wu & P.H. Raven, Fl. China 16: 321. 1995.
D.F. Austin & Sebsebe, Kew Bull. 52: 161–169. 1997.
D.F. Austin & Eich, Willdenowia 31: 79–85. 2001.
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