Pontederia subg. Monochoria (C.Presl) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn, 2018
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Pontederia subg. Monochoria (C.Presl) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn |
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comb. et stat. nov. |
2. Pontederia subg. Monochoria (C.Presl) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn comb. et stat. nov. Fig. 6 View Figure 6
Monochoria C.Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 1(2): 127. 1827. Type species. Monochoria hastifolia C.Presl., nom. illeg. (≡ P. hastata L.).
Calcarunia Raf., Med. Fl. 2: 106. 1830. Type species. Calcarunia hastata (L.) Raf., nom. inval. (≡ P. hastata L.).
Carigola Raf., Fl. Tellur. 2: 10. 1837. Type species. Carigola hastata (L.) Raf. (≡ P. hastata L.).
Gomphima Raf., Fl. Tellur. 2: 10. 1837. Type species. Gomphima vaginalis (Burm.f.) Raf. (≡ P. vaginalis Burm.f.).
Kadakia Raf. Fl. Tellur. 2: 9. 1837. Type species. Kadakia dilatata (Buch.-Ham.) Raf. (= P. hastata L.). Syn. nov.
Limnostachys F.Muell., Fragm. 1: 24. 1858. Type species. Limnostachys cyanea F.Muell. [≡ P. cyanea (F.Muell.) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn].
Description.
Herbs perennial or annual, aquatic to amphibious, erect-emergent or procumbent-emergent. Rhizome short to elongated. Stems erect, spongy, branching at the base. Sessile leaves early deciduous. Petiolate leaves distichously to spirally-alternate, congested at the apex of the stem, sometimes evenly distributed along the stem, floating to emergent, ligule truncate, petioles not-inflated, blades cordate to broadly cordate, rarely elliptic to narrowly ovate. Main florescences (inflorescences) terminal, sessile or pedunculate; inflorescence leaf with an inflated leaf-sheath; basal bract tubular, apex caudate, sometimes acute to acuminate, rarely leaf-like; cincinni alternate or fascicle-like, 1-3-flowered, sessile or pedunculate, internodes elongate, rarely contracted. Flowers pedicellate, chasmogamous, monostylous, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, enantiostylous, perianth connate only at base, campanulate, spirally-coiled at post-anthesis, non-deliquescent and tightly enclosing the developing fruit, lobes 3 superior and 3 inferior, the central superior lobe lacking a nectar guide; stamens unequal, filaments connate forming a petalo-staminal tube, J-shaped or recurved-decurved, glabrous, anthers basifixed, poricidal, dehiscent through two apical pores; ovary with 3 fertile locules, multi-ovulate, septal nectaries absent, style glabrous, stigma capitulate to capitate or trilobate to trifid. Capsules loculicidal, ellipsoid to oblongoid to subglobose; anthocarp thickened, ridged. Seeds cylindrical or ellipsoid to narrowly oblongoid to broadly oblongoid to subglobose or ovoid, testa longitudinally winged.
Circumscription.
Pontederia subg. Monochoria is composed of ten exclusively Paleotropical species. All species occur in permanently moist environments or shallow waters, growing either as erect or procumbent-emergent, resembling in habit smaller members of P. subg. Pontederia and even some species of Heteranthera . The members of this subgenus are quite unique within Pontederia s.l. due to their pedicellate flowers, perianth only basally connate, unequal stamens, basifixed and poricidal anthers and due to the secondary loss of the septal nectaries.
Distribution.
Exclusively Paleotropical ( Cook 1989), with two species native to Africa ( Verdcourt 1961), four to Australia (two endemic, Aston 1985) and six to Asia ( Wang et al. 2004).
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Pontederia subg. Monochoria (C.Presl) M.Pell. & C.N.Horn
Pellegrini, Marco O. O., Horn, Charles N. & Almeida, Rafael F. 2018 |
Limnostachys cyanea
F. Muell 1858 |
Carigola
Rafinesque 1837 |
Carigola hastata
Raf 1837 |
Gomphima
Rafinesque 1837 |
Gomphima vaginalis
Raf 1837 |
Kadakia
Rafinesque 1837 |
Calcarunia
Rafinesque 1830 |
Monochoria hastifolia
C. Presl 1827 |