Graderia
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| Graderia | |
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| G. subintegra | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Orobanchaceae |
| Tribe: | Buchnereae |
| Genus: | Graderia Benth. |
Graderia is a genus of plants in the family Orobanchaceae, which is native to Africa and Socotra. It belongs to the tribe Buchnereae. It is a hemiparasitic taxon.
Etymology
Graderia is a taxonomic anagram derived from the name of the confamilial genus Gerardia. The latter name is a taxonomic patronym honoring the English botanist John Gerard.
Description
Sometimes a suffrutex with stems growing from a woody rhizome. Leaves may be opposite or alternate. The solitary flowers appear in the axils, and have a five-lobed calyx and corolla. The flower is tubular with four stamens, in pairs of unequal length. Each stamen has two divergent, oblong and curved thecae. The two-locular ovary has numerous ovules, and produces numerous seeds in a fruit capsule.
Systematics
The genus includes some four species.
- Graderia fruticosa Balf.f. is endemic to Socotra.
- Graderia linearifolia Codd
- Graderia scabra Benth.
- Graderia subintegra Mast.
References
- ↑ Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist. Haymarket Publishing. 1893.
- 1 2 3 4 Hyde, M.A.; et al. "7614.000 Graderia Benth". Flora of Zimbabwe. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
- ↑ McNeal, J. R.; Bennett, J. R.; Wolfe, A. D.; Mathews, S. (2013-05-01). "Phylogeny and origins of holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae". American Journal of Botany. 100 (5): 971–983. doi:10.3732/ajb.1200448. ISSN 0002-9122. PMID 23608647.
- ↑ Nickrent, Daniel L. (2020). "Parasitic angiosperms: How often and how many?". Taxon. 69 (1): 5–27. doi:10.1002/tax.12195. ISSN 1996-8175.
- ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. G17. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901.
- ↑ Brown, Gary; Mies, Bruno (2012-05-22). Vegetation Ecology of Socotra. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-94-007-4141-6.
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