Wissadula Medik.
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Suffrutices (ours) or small shrubs. Leaves petiolate; base cordate, apex acuminate. Flowers in a lax panicle, orange, yellow or cream. Epicalyx 0. Calyx 5-lobed, shallowly saucer-shaped; lobes longer than tube, triangular-ovate. Staminal tube very short, weakly gibbous. Ovary of 3-5, (1-)2-3-ovulate, free, carpels. Style with 3-5 branches. Fruit of 3-5 free mericarps, transversely divided by an internal false partition, beaked, pubescent and ultimately septicidal. Seeds 1-3 per mericarp, pubescent.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:16
Specimens with Sequences:20
Specimens with Barcodes:17
Species:7
Species With Barcodes:6
Public Records:12
Public Species:4
Public BINs:0
Wissadula is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It contains 25 to 30 species of herbs and subshrubs that are mostly native to the neotropics, with several in tropical Asia and Africa.[3] The name is derived from the Sinhala language.[4]
Selected species
- Wissadula amplissima (L.) R.E.Fr. – Big Yellow Velvetleaf
- Wissadula contracta (Link) R.E.Fr. – Contracted Velvetleaf
- Wissadula diffusa R.E.Fr.
- Wissadula divergens (Benth.) Benth. & Hook.
- Wissadula periplocifolia (L.) K.Presl ex Thwaites – White Velvetleaf[5]
Formerly placed here
- Briquetia spicata (Kunth) Fryxell (as W. spicata (Kunth) C.Presl)[6]
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- ^ "Genus: Wissadula Medik.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-03-12. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?12855. Retrieved 2011-03-18.
- ^ "Wissadula Medik.". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40026507. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
- ^ "Wissadula Medikus, Malvenfam. 24. 1787". Flora of China. eFloras.org. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=134943. Retrieved 2011-07-23.
- ^ Stearn, William Thomas (2004). Botanical Latin. Timber Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-88192-627-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=w0hZvTFJUioC.
- ^ "Wissadula". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=21765. Retrieved 2011-03-18.
- ^ "GRIN Species Records of Wissadula". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?12855. Retrieved 2011-03-18.
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