Cheilotheca

Cheilotheca is a genus of plants of the family Ericaceae ( Ericaceae ). The two species are native to South Asia.

Description

Cheilotheca are chlorophyll -less, myco - heterotrophic, herbaceous plants. Your root system is a loose mass growing from them, shoot and inflorescence axis is upright and is white to purple. The leaves are simple.

The inflorescence is one to wenigblütig. They have two to five sepals, the crown is tube- to bell-shaped, the three concave petals are not fused together. The six stamens are half to two-thirds as long as the crown, the anthers are either linear with non -blown, along slotted theca or grown, horseshoe -shaped and single slotted at the end. The stylus is permanent.

The ovary is sechsfächrig and has parietal placentation on. The fruit is berry-like.

Dissemination

The genus is found in southern Asia from Assam on the Malaysian Peninsula to the Indonesian Sumatra at altitudes 600-1500 m.

System

The genus was first described in 1876 by ​​Joseph Dalton Hooker. A synonym is Andresia. It includes two species, including:

• Cheilotheca malayana

Evidence

• P. F. Stevens et al.: Ericaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Springer -Verlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 167-168, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8

• Heather plants
• Ericaceae
• Mykoheterotrophe plant