Angadenia

Miers

Apocyn. S. Amer., 173, plate 27. 1878.

Etymology: Greek angos, vessel, and adenos, gland, alluding to urceolate nectaried disc
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 14.

Subshrubs [lianas]; latex milky. Stems erect, decumbent, or trailing, unarmed, eglandular-pubescent [glabrous]. Leaves persistent, opposite or rarely subopposite, petiolate; stipular colleters absent; laminar colleters absent. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, pedunculate. Flowers: calycine colleters present; corolla yellow to very pale yellow, funnelform, aestivation dextrorse; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at top of corolla tube; anthers connivent, adherent to stigma, connectives enlarged, 2-lobed, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectaries 5, alternating with stamens. Fruits follicles, usually paired, erect, green, slender, terete to slightly moniliform, surface striate, glabrous. Seeds narrowly lanceolate, flattened, not winged, beaked, comose, not arillate.

Distribution

Florida, West Indies.

Discussion

Species 2 (1 in the flora).

As originally circumscribed, Angadenia was a genus of nearly two dozen species, most of which were transferred by R. E. Woodson Jr. (1936) to Fernaldia Woodson, Mandevilla, Neobracea Britton, and Odontadenia Bentham. Following Woodson, the genus is here treated as comprising two species, the native A. berteroi and A. lindeniana Miers of Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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David E. Lemke +
Florida +  and West Indies. +
Greek angos, vessel, and adenos, gland, alluding to urceolate nectaried disc +
Apocyn. S. Amer., +
Angadenia +
Apocynaceae +