View source for Wissadula ← Wissadula You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Wissadula |accepted_authority=Medikus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Malvenfam., |place=24. 1787 |year=1787 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Wissadula |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Wissadula]]</div></div> |etymology=Presumably Sinhalese wissa, poison, and duvili, dust or powder; common name wissaduli used for plants of Centipeda minima (Linnaeus) A. Braun & Ascherson and misapplied here |volume=Volume 6 |mention_page=page 216 |treatment_page=page 374 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>[perennial herbs]. <b>Stems</b> usually erect, hairy [glabrate], not viscid. <b>Leaves</b> distalmost sometimes subsessile; stipules usually persistent, filiform, subulate, or minute; blade broadly ovate to ovate-triangular [narrowly triangular], unlobed, base cordate, margins entire [crenate-dentate], surfaces usually stellate-hairy [sometimes glabrate]. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles or racemes; involucel absent. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, shorter than mature fruits, lobes not ribbed, triangular; corolla usually yellowish, sometimes white, rotate; staminal column exserted; style 3–6-branched; stigmas capitate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, erect, not inflated, obovoid, not indurate; mericarps 3–6, 2-celled, apex bulbous-apiculate, proximal cell indehiscent, distal cell dehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> (1–)3 per mericarp, lower cell 1-seeded, upper cell usually 2-seeded, hairy, proximal seed relatively more densely hairy. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=sc United States;Mexico;West Indies;South America;s Asia;Africa. |discussion=<p>Species 25 (3 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=fries1908a |text=Fries, R. E. 1908. Entwurf einer Monographie der Gattungen Wissadula und Pseudabutilon. Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n. s. 43(4): 1–114. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaf blades 2.5–3.5 cm, apex acute to subobtuse; stipules minute; petals yellow, fading to orange. |[[Wissadula parvifolia|Wissadula parvifolia]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaf blades 4–11 cm, apex acute or acuminate; stipules 4–12 mm; petals usually yellowish or white, sometimes with dark red basal spot |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaf blades broadly ovate, base deeply cordate (except uppermost), margins curved; petals yellowish; stipules 7–12 mm. |[[Wissadula hernandioides|Wissadula hernandioides]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaf blades ovate-triangular, base shallowly cordate, margins straight; petals yellowish or white, sometimes with dark red basal spot; stipules 4–5 mm. |[[Wissadula periplocifolia|Wissadula periplocifolia]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Wissadula |author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill |authority=Medikus |rank=genus |parent rank=subfamily |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Malvaceae |distribution=sc United States;Mexico;West Indies;South America;s Asia;Africa. |reference=fries1908a |publication title=Malvenfam., |publication year=1787 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_694.xml |subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae |genus=Wissadula }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Malvaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Wissadula.