Stachytarpheta Vahl (1804: 205)

Cardoso, Pedro Henrique, Valério, Vanessa Imaculada Dos Reis, Neto, Luiz Menini & Salimena, Fátima Regina Gonçalves, 2021, Verbenaceae in Espírito Santo, Brazil: richness, patterns of geographic distribution and conservation, Phytotaxa 484 (1), pp. 1-43 : 29

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.484.1.1

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scientific name

Stachytarpheta Vahl (1804: 205)
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10. Stachytarpheta Vahl (1804: 205) View in CoL .

Herbs or shrubs, monoecious, branches without prickles, not aromatic. Leaves sessile or petiolate, glands near to the petiole absent. Inflorescences terminal, simple, racemes spiciform, multiflorous, rachis elongated; bracts membranaceous, green; bracteoles absent. Flowers sessile; calyx tubular, shorter than the corolla, immersed or not in the depressions of the rachis, membranaceous, green, 2‒4-toothed, persistent, accrescent in fruit; corolla zygomorphic, 5-lobed; stamens 2, staminodes 2, included, connective appendages absent, thecae divergent; ovary 1-carpelate, 2- loculate, ovules 1 per locle, stigma capitate. Fruit schizocarp, with 2 cluses, brown, external surface reticulate.

Stachytarpheta View in CoL is part of the tribe Duranteae ( Marx et al. 2010) and presents approximately 120 species distributed throughout the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, with great diversity concentrated in Brazil ( Atkins 2005, Cardoso et al. in press.). This is a monophyletic genus, characterized by the presence of the androecium with two fertile stamens and two staminodes ( Marx et al. 2010). There are 82 species recorded in Brazil, of which 75 are endemic, with most of the richness concentrated in Cerrado ( Cardoso & Salimena 2020c). Seventeen species were recorded in the Atlantic Forest, of which six are found in Espírito Santo.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Lamiales

Family

Verbenaceae

Loc

Stachytarpheta Vahl (1804: 205)

Cardoso, Pedro Henrique, Valério, Vanessa Imaculada Dos Reis, Neto, Luiz Menini & Salimena, Fátima Regina Gonçalves 2021
2021
Loc

Stachytarpheta

Vahl 1804
1804
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