Wadithamnus T.Hammer & R.W.Davis, 2017
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.295.2.5 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F2F15E-FFE7-FFE7-FF50-FB56FCC8A380 |
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treatment provided by |
Felipe |
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scientific name |
Wadithamnus T.Hammer & R.W.Davis |
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gen. nov. |
Wadithamnus T.Hammer & R.W.Davis View in CoL gen. nov.
Generitype: Wadithamnus artemisioides (Vierh. & O.Schwartz) T.Hammer & R.W.Davis
Diagnosis: —Erect shrubs; young stems, leaves, inflorescence axes and outer surfaces of tepals densely but shortly white-tomentose with dendritic hairs, these sometimes contracted and appearing stellate. Leaves simple, alternate, entire. Flowers bisexual, bracteolate, arranged in loose and panicle-like, 3(7)-flowered cymes each borne distantly along elongate axes, each cymule subtended by a bract, the bracteoles of the central flower enclosing the lateral flowers. Tepals 6 (4 inner and 2 outer), free, glabrous adaxially. Stamens 4, alternate to the inner tepals, all fertile, united at their base into a short staminal cup and alternating with short, triangular staminal cup appendages. Ovary glabrous, compressed-ovoid, that of the central flower compressed at right angles to the cyme bract, those of the lateral flowers at right angles to the central flower; ovule 1; stigma sessile, capitate. Capsule 1-seeded, thin-walled, rupturing irregularly.
Etymology: —The generic epithet derives from the Arabic wadi (a seasonally wet valley or ravine) and the Greek thamnos (a shrub).
Distribution: —A monotypic genus from S-Arabia.
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