Kageneckia

Kageneckia oblonga

The Kageneckia are a genus of flowering plants of the rose family ( Rosaceae ).

Description

Kageneckia are unbestachelte shrubs or low trees. Its leaves are alternate, are simple, pinnately and serrated at the edge, stipules are present.

Kageneckia are dioecious with attractive flowers. The male inflorescence is a shield grape or grape, the female flowers appear singly.

The flower cup is bell - to inversely conical, an outer cup is missing. The petals are white to yellowish. The disk is in a ring, on the wreath are the fifteen stamens or staminodes. The scars are widened and forked. The male flowers bear small stamp rudiments. The numerous ovules are available in two horizontal rows.

The fruit is a follicle with numerous, winged at the top seed. The chromosome number is 2n = 34

Dissemination

Kageneckia found in South America from Bolivia, Peru and Chile to Argentina.

System

The genus was first described in 1794 by Hipólito Ruiz López and José Antonio Pavon. It is classified in the tribe Pyreae, Supertribus Pyrodae the subfamily Spiraeoideae. There are three types:

• Kageneckia angustifolia
• Kageneckia lanceolata
• Kageneckia oblonga

Evidence

• C. Kalkman: Rosaceae. 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. 354-355, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8