Sherardia
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Annual herbs; stems 4-angled. Leaves and stipules more or less equal, in whorls of 4–6. Inflorescence a terminal head of sessile flowers, surrounded by leafy involucral bracts. Flowers bisexual; calyx 6-lobed, lobes persistent in fruit; corolla funnel-shaped, 4-lobed, lobes much shorter than tube; stamens 4, with filaments largely adnate to corolla-tube, anthers lacking appendages; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules 1 per cell, style 2-lobed, stigmas capitate. Fruit dry, 2-lobed, tardily or not breaking into mericarps.
1 species, from Europe and western Asia, widely naturalised.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Rubiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 616–642. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Updated by: Val
Stajsic,
26 Sep. 2018
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