Pollia Thunberg (1781: 11)
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Pollia Thunberg (1781: 11) |
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Pollia Thunberg (1781: 11) View in CoL . Type:— Pollia japonica Thunb. (1781: 11)
Aclisia E.Meyer ex C. Presl (1827:137) View in CoL . Type:— Aclisia sorzogonensis E.Mey. ex C. Presl (1827: 138) View in CoL .
Lamprocarpus Blume ex Schultes & Schultes (1830: 1615 View in CoL , 1726). Type:— Lamprocarpus thyrsiflorus Blume ex Schultes & Schultes (1830: 1726) View in CoL .
Diffusely branched, stoloniferous or rhizomatous perennial herbs. Roots fibrous. Leaves spirally arranged, petiolate. Inflorescence thyrsus, terminal, composed of few to many cincinni. Flowers actinomorphic to slightly zygomorphic, pedicellate. Sepals free, subequal, sepaline or petaline. Petals free, equal or posterior 2 slightly differentiated from the anterior one, sometimes shortly clawed. Stamens 6, equal, fertile, or posterior 3 shorter than the anterior 3 and either fertile or staminodial; filaments free, glabrous. Fruits berry like, hard and crustaceous, indehiscent, trilocular, usually lustrous, metallic blue. Seeds biseriate or rarely uniseriate, 3–8 (–11) per locule; hilum ± punctiform, embryotega dorsal ( Faden 1998).
Distribution:—Tropical Africa, West Indian ocean, tropical and subtropical Asia to southwest Pacific and central America ( Govaerts & Faden 2015).
Ecology:—An exclusively forest genus occurring in stream banks in evergreen forests, moist rocky areas on forest margins, forest understory and forest edges, from near sea level to 1800 meters.
Faden, R. B. (1998) Commelinaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (Ed.) The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol 4: Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Alismatanae to Commelinanae (excepr Gramineae). Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 109 - 128. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 662 - 03531 - 3 _ 12
Govaerts, R. & Faden, R. B. (2015) World Checklist of Commelinaceae. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Available from: http: // apps. kew. org / wcsp / (accessed 18 December 2015)
Presl, C. B. (1827) Reliquiae Haenkeanae, seu, Descriptiones et icones plantarum quas in America meridionali et boreali, in insulis Philippinis et Marianis collegit Thaddaeus Haenke / redegit et in ordinem digessit Carolus Bor. Presl. Cura Musei Bohemici. Vol. 1. Apud J. G. Galve, Prague, 356 pp.
Schultes, J. A. & Schultes, J. H. (1830) Caroli a Linne, equitis, Systema vegetabilium: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species. Cum characteribus differentiis et synonymis. Editio nova, speciebus inde ab editione XV. Detectis aucta et locupletata. Vol. 7 (2). Stuttgardtiae, 1127 pp.
Thunberg, C. P. (1781) Nova Genera Plantarum. J. Edman, Uppsala, 194 pp. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 88
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Pollia Thunberg (1781: 11)
| Jameera, A., Nampy, Santhosh & Janeesha, A. P. 2016 |
Lamprocarpus Blume ex
| Schultes, J. A. & Schultes, J. H. 1830: 1615 |
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Aclisia E.Meyer ex C. Presl (1827:137)
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Pollia
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