832.010 Syngonanthus Ruhland

Description of the genus

Annuals or perennial herbs, usually hairy, the hairs often glandular. Leaves in a basal rosette, woolly in the axils. Involucral bracts in several series. Floral bracts 0. Receptacle woolly with long hairs surrounding the flowers. Flowers 3-merous. Petals usually eglandular. Male flowers: sepals connate below the middle into a tube with free lobes; petals completely connate into a membranous tube; stamens 3, as many as the petals; anthers white or yellowish. Female flowers: sepals free; petals connate in the middle, the bases and tips free; ovary with 3 carpels; style 3-branched at the tip, the branches usually alternating with 3 swollen-tipped glandular appendages. Seeds ellipsoid to cylindric.

Worldwide: c. 200 species, mainly in South America; 14 species known from tropical and South Africa

Malawi: 2 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
angolensis H.Hess N
wahlbergii (Wikstr. ex Körn.) Ruhland var. wahlbergii S

Other sources of information about Syngonanthus:

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Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Syngonanthus
Flora of Mozambique: Syngonanthus
Flora of Zambia: Syngonanthus
Flora of Zimbabwe: Syngonanthus

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Syngonanthus
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Syngonanthus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Syngonanthus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Syngonanthus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Syngonanthus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Syngonanthus
JSTOR Plant Science: Syngonanthus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Syngonanthus
Plants of the World Online: Syngonanthus
Tropicos: Syngonanthus
Wikipedia: Syngonanthus

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Genus page: Syngonanthus.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=314, retrieved 28 March 2024

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