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2. Silvianthus J. D. Hooker, Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 11: 36. 1868.
蜘蛛花属 zhi zhu hua shu
Quiducia Gagnepain.
Shrubs or subshrubs; stems hollow. Leaf margin shallowly dentate. Inflorescence a cyme, usually axillary, many flowered, dense, compact, headlike, shortly pedunculate or sessile. Flowers heterostylous. Corolla broadly funnelform, (4 or)5-lobed; lobes induplicate-valvate. Anthers dorsifixed near base, oblong; pollen grains 3-colpate. Disk ridged. Ovary with placentas at middle of septum; style prolonged; stigma oblong-fusiform. Fruit a 5-valved, slightly fleshy capsule. Seeds ovoid-oblong, slightly curved; testa spongy, longitudinally striate.
Two species: China, NE India, Laos, Myanmar, N Thailand, N Vietnam; two species in China.
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Calyx lobes relatively large, oblong to spatulate; corolla white; leaf blade drying membranous. |
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1 S. bracteatus |
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Calyx lobes relatively smaller, linear; corolla yellow or red; leaf blade drying papery. |
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2 S. tonkinensis |
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