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6. Edgeworthia Meisner, Pl. Vasc. Gen. 1: 330, 2: 242. 1841.
结香属 jie xiang shu
Authors: Yinzheng Wang & Michael G. Gilbert
Shrubs, deciduous, much branched. Leaves alternate, usually clustered apically; petiole short; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, thickly membranous. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, densely capitate; peduncle long or short; involucre present; bracts caducous, small. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous; pedicel present, articulate. Calyx tube cylindric, incurved, interior yellow or white, exterior densely white pilose; lobes 4, spreading. Petaloid appendages absent. Stamens twice as many as calyx lobes, in two series; filaments very short. Disk cup-shaped, lobed. Ovary sessile, pilose, 1-loculed; style long, sometimes puberulous; stigma rounded or clavate, papillose. Fruit dry or slightly succulent, base enclosed by persistent calyx.
Five species: Asia; four species (three endemic) in China.
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Leaves deciduous, absent at flowering. |
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3 E. chrysantha |
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Leaves evergreen or biennial, present at flowering |
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Inflorescences 10-17-flowered. |
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1 E. eriosolenoides |
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Inflorescences 30-50-flowered |
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Calyx interior yellow; ovary uniformly hairy; stigma rounded. |
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2 E. gardneri |
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Calyx interior white; ovary base glabrous, apex hairy; stigma clavate. |
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4 E. albiflora |
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