Philesiaceae

Chilean wax bell ( Lapageria rosea)

The Philesiaceae are a plant family in the order of the lily -like ( Liliales ).

  • 4.1 Notes and references

Description

Vegetative characteristics

There are woody plants: clockwise twining lianas ( Lapageria ) or self upright shrubs ( Philesia ). The alternate arranged leaves leaves are petiolate to sessile. The rough leathery leaf blades are easy to linear, lanceolate or ovate with a relatively atypical for monocots Blattnervatur. The leaf margin is smooth. The stomata are anomozytisch.

Generative features

The flowers are individually terminally on short shoots or in the axils. There are support and cover sheets available. The showy, bell-shaped flowers are hermaphrodite, radial symmetry and threefold. There are two circles, each with three identical fashion, free bloom ( perianth ) available. There are two circles, each with three fertile stamens present which do not intertwine with the bloom cladding and also with each other freely. The pollen grains have no apertures. The nectar is performed on the basis of the bloom. Three carpels are fused to a constant above, unilocular ovary. In parietal placentation sit the tens to hundreds anatropen, bitegmischen, crassinucellaten ovules. It is a pen available.

Are formed berries. The seeds contain plenty of oily endosperm and a differentiated, straight embryo. The thin seed coat ( testa) contains no Phytomelan.

System

There are only two monotypic genera in the family:

  • Lapageria Ruiz & Pav Chilean wax bell ( Lapageria rosea Ruiz & Pav ), the national flower of Chile, with the two varieties: Lapageria rosea var rosea
  • Lapageria rosea var albiflora Hook.
  • Philesia magellanica J.F.Gmel. ( Syn: Ph. buxifolia Willd. )

There are only two species in the family.

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Both species are native to the southern part of Chile, in the temperate rainforests of Chile's west coast, in the " Valdivian forests ".

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  • Description of the family of Philesiaceae in APWebsite. (Section Description and systematics)
  • Description of the family of Philesiaceae at DELTA. ( Description section )
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