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| Jepson eFlora: Taxon page
Key to families | Table of families and genera |
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Perennial [ annual], rhizomed.
Leaf: basal, cauline, or both, alternate, 2-ranked, sheaths often overlapping to form pseudostem, blade elliptic, midrib prominent, veins parallel.
Inflorescence: raceme [ panicle], bracts large [minute], overlapping.
Flower: bisexual, bilateral; sepals 3, united, petals 3, united; fertile stamen 1, opposite 2 staminodes fused into a petal-like lip, 2 lateral, petal-like [rudimentary], free staminodes also present [or 0]; ovary inferior, placentas axile, parietal, or ± basal, chambers [1]3, each many-ovuled.
Fruit: capsule [ berry].
Seed: arilled.
48 genera, ± 1300 species: pantropical. [Kress et al. 2002 Amer J Bot 89:1682–1696] —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Pseudostem 1–2[3] m.
Inflorescence: exserted from tip of pseudostem, dense, cone-like [lax].
Flower: calyx cylindric, 3-toothed or -lobed, split down 1 side [not split]; corolla tube slender, lobes 3, linear; stamens ± linear, incurved, tubular, enclosing style, anther long- exserted; lip oblong, 2-lobed, plane.
Fruit: spheric.
x=17.
± 50 species: s Asia, Madagascar. (Greek: sweet snow, for fragrant white flowers) [Wood et al. 2000 Edinburgh J Bot 57:261–270]
Previous taxon: Zingiberaceae
Next taxon: Hedychium flavescens
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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