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Gardneria Wall.
蓬萊葛屬
Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent. Leaves opposite, entire, coriaceous, stipules connate into a cylindric sheath. Flowers in terminal, few- or many-flowered cymes; calyx small, funnel-shaped or campanulate; corolla tubular, lobes 4 or 5, valvate; stamens inserted on corolla tube, filaments short; ovary 2-celled, styles long or short, with 2 linear or clavate stigmas; ovules 1 in each cell, erect. Fruit a subglobose 2-celled berry; seeds compressed, with fleshy or horny endosperm.
About 30 species in tropical Asia and Africa. Two species in Taiwan.
Yang, S.-Z. & C.-I. Peng 1994. Gardneria (Loganiaceae) in Taiwan. Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 35: 223-227.
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Leaves 6-12 cm long, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate; inflorescences 3-10-flowered; corola yellow, the lobes ascending or spreading at anthesis; stamens loosely connivent, the connectives inconspicuous, glabrous; style much exerted from the anther tip, the exerted portion subequal to the anthers. |
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Gardneria multiflora |
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Leaves 3-7 cm long, elliptic-ovate; inflorescences 1(-3)-flowered; corolla creamy white, the lobes markedly recurved at anthesis; stamens coherent, the connectives prominent, narrowly triangular, densely minutely appressed puberulous abaxially; style slightly exerted from the anther tip, the exerted portion much shorter than the anthers. |
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Gardneria nutans |
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