Argyreia
Hawaiian Baby Woodrose ( Argyreia nervosa )
Argyreia is a plant genus of the family of wind plants ( Convolvulaceae ). The approximately 90 species are native to Asia, Malaysia and northern Australia. The Hawaiian Baby Woodrose ( Argyreia nervosa ) is cultivated in the tropics often.
Features
Argyreia are perennial, woody lianas. The leaves are entire, and stalked. On the underside of leaves are sometimes hairy silvery silky.
The flowers are in little - to many-flowered inflorescences zymösen. The five sepals are herbaceous to coriaceous and almost in shape and size variable. Often the outside of the calyx is hairy. At the fruit of the cup is slightly enlarged to strong. The crown can be small or large, the shape varies between bell - funnel or tubular. There are species with purple, red, pink or white flowers. The coronary band is almost entire or lobed deep, the Verwachsungsstellen between the petals are hairy. The five stamens may project beyond the crown or not. The scar consists of two spherical parts.
The fruits are elliptical to spherical berries. They are fleshy, leathery or floury and can be purple, red, orange or yellowish. They contain four or fewer seeds, these are glabrous or rarely with fine hairs around the hilum around.
Dissemination
The species occurs mainly in tropical Asia, is a kind in Queensland (Australia) at home.
System
The genus is classified within the wind plants in the tribe Ipomoeeae. Within the genus around 90 species are distinguished.
Selection of species:
- Argyreia cuneata ( Willd.) Ker Gawl.
- Argyreia hirsuta Wight & Arn.
- Argyreia megapotamica Griseb.
- Argyreia nervosa ( Burm. f ) Boii
- Argyreia obtusifolia Lour.
- Argyreia wallichii Choisy