Odontostemma Benth. ex G. Don
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Odontostemma Benth. ex G. Don |
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Odontostemma Benth. ex G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 449. 1831
Arenaria subg. Odontostemma (Benth. ex G. Don) F.N. Williams, Bull. Herb. Boissier 3: 603. 1895.
Gooringia F.N. Williams, Bull. Herb. Boissier 5: 530. 1897.
Type.
Odontostemma glandulosum Benth. ex G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 449. 1831
Description.
Herbs annual, biennial, or perennial, diffuse, not pulvinate. Leaf blades linear to ovate, rarely subulate. Inflorescences cymose, terminal or sometimes axillary, the flowers often borne on long pedicels. Sepals often curved outward distally, often saccate, veins inconspicuous, margin membranous, apex truncate or acute. Petals usually longer than sepals (sometimes shorter, when cleistogamous flowers present), apex emarginate or shallowly bifid or toothed. Styles 2, seldom 3 [4(5) in Odontostemma weissianum ]. Seeds often inflated, roughened, without reticulate striations.
About 65 species: Asia; 59 species (57 endemic) in China.
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Odontostemma Benth. ex G. Don
| Rabeler, Richard K. & Wagner, Warren L. 2016 |
Gooringia
| F.N.Williams 1897 |