Pfaffia
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Pfaffia
Hierbas erectas o sarmentosas, arbustos escandentes o lianas volubles. Hojas opuestas, pecioladas; láminas simples, estípulas ausentes. Flores bisexuales, dispuestas en glomérulos, espigas o panículas axilares o terminales en cortas ramas axilares; brácteas y bractéolas persistentes. Tépalos 5, libres, cóncavos, con un mechón de pelos en la base de la superficie externa o los pelos naciendo del pedicelo; estambres 5, los filamentos unidos en la base para formar un corto tubo estaminal; apéndices interestaminales presentes o ausentes; ovario súpero, unilocular, uniovulado, ovoide, el estigma bilobado, sésil o subsésil. Fruto un utrículo indehiscente, cubierto por el perianto. Género con aproximadamente 35 especies de distribución neotropical.
Pfaffia
Erect or clambering herbs, scandent shrubs, or twining lianas. Leaves opposite, petiolate; blades simple, stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, arranged in glomerules, spikes, or axillary or terminal panicles on short axillary branches; bracts and bracteoles persistent. Tepals 5, free, concave, with a tuft of hairs at the base on the outer surface or the hairs borne on the pedicel; stamens 5, the filaments united at the base to form a short staminal tube; interstaminal appendages present or absent; ovary superior, unilocular, uniovulate, ovoid, the stigma bilobed, sessile or subsessile. Fruit an indehiscent utricle, covered by the perianth. A genus of approximately 35 species of neotropical distribution.
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:5
Specimens with Sequences:4
Specimens with Barcodes:3
Species:5
Species With Barcodes:4
Public Records:3
Public Species:3
Public BINs:0
Pfaffia [1][2] (syn. Hebantha Mart., Hebanthe Mart. [3]) is a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae. This genus is sometimes placed in Chenopodiaceae family.
Selected species[edit]
- Pfaffia cinera
- Pfaffia denutata
- Pfaffia glomerata
- Pfaffia gnaphaloides
- Pfaffia helichrysoides
- Pfaffia jubata
- Pfaffia paniculata - Suma Root, Brazilian Ginseng (now classified as Hebanthe eriantha)
- Pfaffia sericantha
- Pfaffia sericea
- Pfaffia townsendii
- Pfaffia tuberosa
- Pfaffia velutina
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