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13. Loeseneriella A. C. Smith, Amer. J. Bot. 28: 438. 1941.
翅子藤属 chi zi teng shu
Authors: Hua Peng & Michele Funston
Woody lianas, puberulent or glabrescent, lenticellate, internodes slightly enlarged. Leaves opposite or subopposite, entire or crenulate. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, cymose. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous. Disk fleshy, cupular, sometimes arranged in rings, extrastaminal. Stamens 3; filaments tonguelike; anthers transversely dehiscent, extrorse. Ovary weakly triangular, partially or wholly concealed in disk, 3-locular; ovules 4-8 per locule. Fruits 1-3-fascicled capsules; capsule transversely flattened, leathery, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds 4-8, with membranous basal wings, exalbuminous.
About 20 species: tropical Africa and Asia; five species (all endemic) in China.
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Leaf blade elliptic, 3-7 × 1.5-3.5 cm |
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Leaf blade lanceolate, ovate, or oblong-elliptic, 5-12(-21) × 2.5-6(-7.5) cm |
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Leaf blade narrowly elliptic, adaxially shiny, margin sparsely denticulate; peduncle 15-18 mm. |
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1 L. concinna |
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Leaf blade elliptic, adaxially not shiny, margin sinuate, cartilaginous; peduncle less than 10 mm. |
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2 L. griseoramula |
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Leaf blade lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, apex long caudate. |
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3 L. lenticellata |
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Leaf blade ovate or oblong-elliptic, apex not caudate |
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Peduncle 1.5-3 cm; petals 4-5 × 1.7-2.5 mm; fruit elliptic. |
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4 L. merrilliana |
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Peduncle 1-1.2 cm; petals 5-8 × 2.5-4 mm; fruit ovate-oblong. |
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5 L. yunnanensis |
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