View source for Voyria ← Voyria 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=Voyria |accepted_authority=Aublet |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Hist. Pl. Guiane |place=1: 208, plate 83. 1775 |year=1775 }} |basionyms= |synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym |name=Leiphaimos |authority=Schlechtendal & Chamisso |rank=genus }} |hierarchy=Gentianaceae;Voyria |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gentianaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Voyria]]</div></div> |etymology=Garipons, spoken in French Guiana, voyria, local name alluding to edible roots of achlorophyllous heterotrophic plants, probably Voyria rosea Aublet |volume=Volume 14 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, achlorophyllous, glabrous [variously puberulent]. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, opposite [proximal alternate], scalelike. <b>Inflorescences</b> small dichasial cymes [flowers solitary]. <b>Flowers</b> [4]5-merous; calyx small, tube campanulate [to cylinidric]; corolla white or pink [orange, yellow, pale violet-blue], salverform [funnelform], glabrous [tube pubescent on adaxial or both surfaces], lobes shorter than tube, imbricate in bud, entire, plicae between lobes absent, spurs absent; stamens inserted in distal 1/2 of corolla tube; anthers subsessile, distinct [connate], remaining straight; ovary stipitate [sessile]; style persistent [deciduous], erect, short [long], remaining straight; stigma 2-lobed [unlobed]; nectaries absent [2, on proximal part of ovary]. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;warm-temperate to tropical areas. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Plants of Voyria are mycotrophic. The root anatomy and mycorrhizae of several species have been investigated by S. Imhof (1997, 1999, and references cited therein). The one species in the flora area is in subg. Leiphaimos (Schlechtendal & Chamisso) V. A. Albert & Struwe.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Voyria |author=James S. Pringle |authority=Aublet |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms=Leiphaimos |basionyms= |family=Gentianaceae |distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;warm-temperate to tropical areas. |reference=None |publication title=Hist. Pl. Guiane |publication year=1775 |special status= |source xml= |genus=Voyria }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Gentianaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Gentianaceae (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/ID/Synonym (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Voyria.