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23. Periploca Linn., Sp. Pl. 211. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5.100. 1754; Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:49.1879; Hook. F., Fl. Brit. Ind. 4:11.1883; Parker, For. Fl. Punj. Ed. 3338.1956; Cooke, Fl. Pres. Bomb. Reprint ed. 2:211. 1958; Browicz in Arab. Korn, 11:5-104. 1966; Rech. F., Fl. Iran. 73:2.1970.
S.I. ALI
Erect or twining glabrous shrubs. Leaves (when present). Opposite. Flowers in lax axillary or terminal cymes. Calyx 5-partite, with 5 glands on the inner side. Corolla rotate, lobes 5, usually bearded within. Corona single, a 10-lobed ring arising from the corolla a little above the stamens, often with 5 free awned segments. Stamens 5, filaments short, broad, free, anthers bearded, adjacent but not adnate to the stigma, pollen grains in tetrads. Follicles cylindrical smooth. Seeds comose.
A genus with 10 species, distributed in north and tropical Africa, Orient and East Asia; represented in Pakistan by 3 species.
Lower Taxa
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