2330.010 Guilleminea Kunth

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Description of the genus

Prostrate perennial herbs with entire, opposite leaves. Inflorescences consisting of dense, sessile, axillary ovoid heads. Flowers bisexual, solitary in the axil of each bract, subtended by 2 bracteoles. Sterile flowers 0. Tepals densely woolly, 1-veined, united for about half their length (in ours). Stamens 5. Capsule thin-walled, splitting irregularly. Seed flattened.

Worldwide: 5 species, occuring from southern USA to Argentina; G. densa an increasing tropical weed.

Malawi: 1 taxon.

Guilleminea densa

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densa (Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.) Moq.SDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Guilleminea:

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Flora of Botswana: Guilleminea
Flora of Caprivi: Guilleminea
Flora of Mozambique: Guilleminea
Flora of Zambia: Guilleminea
Flora of Zimbabwe: Guilleminea

External websites:

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

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: Guilleminea.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=538, retrieved 29 March 2024

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