Brookea Benth. (1876a: 939)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.403.3.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13717346 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E85644-7D5C-0B63-FF4B-02C8FCA4EBEE |
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Felipe |
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Brookea Benth. (1876a: 939) |
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Brookea Benth. (1876a: 939) View in CoL .
Type: — Brookea dasyantha Benth.
Shrubs or small trees. Stellate hairs present. Leaves simple, opposite, usually one of a pair smaller than the other, margin denticulate, venation pinnate. Inflorescences racemes, terminal. Calyx connate, 4- or 5-dentate. Corolla connate, bilabiate, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed, with two keels on the median lobe. Stamens 4, didynamous; anthers apicifixed, versatile, cells divergent, opening introrse, longitudinally. Ovary 2-locular, with distinct placentas, ovules numerous; stigma bilobed. Fruit a septicidal capsule. Seeds numerous, disc-like.
Distribution: —Six species, four in Borneo and three in Sulawesi.
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