Agelaea

Agelaea lamarckii

Agelaea is a plant genus of the family of Connaraceae.

Description

Agelaea are lianas. Its leaves are imparipinnate to put together almost hand -shaped and consist of mostly three, sometimes up to five leaflets. The inflorescence is a panicle. The most heterotristylen or heterodistylen flowers are hermaphroditic and fünfzählig.

The petals and stamens are glabrous, the style often hairy. There are five carpels, the fruits are weak or non- pedunculated bellows that are outside densely covered with soft, silky hairs, the interior is bare, ripe it opens.

The seeds are individually attached at the base of the bladder and have a fleshy outer layer, called Sarko Testa, it covers the approach of the seed. A lack endosperm, the cotyledons are thick, the radicle is pointed.

Dissemination

The genus is altweltlich, the species are found in tropical Africa and tropical Asia.

System

The genus is placed in the tribe Cnestidae the family. There are eight species, including:

• Agelaea pentagyna
• Agelaea paradoxa
• Agelaea lamarckii

Evidence

• R. H. M. J. Lemmens et al. Connaraceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Volume 6: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-06512-1, pp. 74-81, doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

• Connaraceae (Family)
• Connaraceae