Hemandradenia

Hemandradenia is a plant genus of the family of Connaraceae.

Description

Hemandradenia are shrubs or small trees. The actual compound leaves have only one leaves. The inflorescence is a panicle or a glomerulus, the heterodistylen flowers are hermaphroditic and most fünfzählig, rarely four to siebenzählig.

The petals are hairy outside and inside, as are the stamens and the style. There is only one carpel, the fruit is a ungestielter bellows, outside densely tomentose and interior bare and does not open during or after maturity.

The seeds are individually attached to the inside of the bellows and have a fleshy outer layer, the so-called sarcoplasmic Testa, which completely encloses the seed. The endosperm is thin and plentiful, the radicle is pointed.

Dissemination

The genus is altweltlich, the species are found in West and Central Africa.

System

The genus is placed in the tribe Connareae the family. There are only two types:

• Hemandradenia chevalieri
• Hemandradenia mannii

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