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Allotropa
Family:
Platygastridae
Images
not available
FNA
Resources
Gary D. Wallace in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Herbs,
achlorophyllous, heterotrophic.
Stems
absent.
Leaves
absent.
Inflorescences
racemes, erect at emergence from soil, axis fleshy and fibrous, persistent after seed dispersal, white with red to maroon vertical stripes, 0.5-1 cm diam. proximal to proximalmost flower.
Pedicels
erect, somewhat elongated in fruit; bracteoles absent.
Flowers
radially symmetric, erect to spreading; sepals absent, rarely 2-5, distinct, linear to filiform; petals 5, distinct, white, without basal tubercles, (surfaces glabrous), corolla crateriform; intrastaminal nectary disc present; stamens 10, exserted; filaments terete, glabrous; anthers ovoid, without awns, without tubules, dehiscent by 2 oval slits; pistil 5-carpellate; ovary 5-locular; placentation axile; style straight, stout; stigma peltate, without subtending ring of hairs.
Fruits
capsular, erect, dehiscence basipetally loculicidal, no cobwebby tissue exposed by splitting valves at dehiscence.
Seeds
100+, fusiform, mostly narrowly winged.
x
= 13.
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