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12. Homocodon D. Y. Hong, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 18: 473. 1980.
同钟花属 tong zhong hua shu
Authors: Deyuan Hong & Thomas G. Lammers
Plants annual, prostrate. Stems longitudinally 3-winged. Leaves alternate. Flowers 1-3 on extremely short branches, sessile or shortly pedicellate. Calyx epigynous, 5-lobed, lobes dentate. Corolla epigynous, tubular-campanulate, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, free from corolla and free from each other; filaments slightly dilated and sparsely ciliate at base. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; stigma 3-fid; lobes linear, recurved. Fruit dry, irregularly dehiscent or irregularly poricidal in lower part. Seeds ellipsoid, not angular, shallowly reticulate.
Two species: Bhutan, China; two species (one endemic) in China.
These species have been included in Heterocodon Nuttall, but their flowers are on short branches, not solitary and opposite to leaves on main stems; and their seeds are terete and reticulate, not angular and smooth.
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Pedicels absent; corolla smaller, ca. 3.5 mm; style as long as corolla. |
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1 H. brevipes |
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Pedicels ca. 6 mm; corolla 7-9 mm; style exserted. |
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2 H. pedicellatus |
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