View source for Araujia ← Araujia 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=Araujia |accepted_authority=Brotero |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London |place=12: 62, plates 4, 5. 1818 |year=1818 }} |common_names=Bladderflower |special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status |code=I |label=Introduced }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Araujia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Araujia]]</div></div> |etymology=For Antonio de Matos Araujo, nineteenth-century Portuguese plant collector |volume=Volume 14 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Lianas; latex white. <b>Stems</b> prostrate or twining, unarmed, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent to semipersistent, opposite, petiolate; stipular colleters absent or 2, 1 borne at base of petiole on each side, interpetiolar and infrapetiolar colleters absent; laminar colleters present. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, solitary, racemose or cymose, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent or present; corolla white, light pink, or pale to waxy green, rotate or funnelform, aestivation valvate; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium united into a gynostegium adnate to corolla tube; gynostegial corona a tube or interrupted and of cartilaginous to fleshy, irregularly toothed to entire segments; anthers adnate to style, locules 2; pollen in each theca massed into rigid, vertically oriented pollinium, pollinia lacrimiform, joined from adjacent anthers by translators to common corpusculum and together forming pollinarium. <b>Fruits</b> follicles, solitary, pendulous or somewhat deflexed, green, ovoid, terete or somewhat compressed, smooth or longitudinally furrowed, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> obdeltate, obpyriform, or oblong, flattened to navicular, winged or not, not beaked, comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 10, 11.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=South America;introduced also in Central America;Europe;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species ca. 12 (2 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Sepals lanceolate to oblong, not leaflike, 1–3 mm wide; corollas rotate, pale to waxy green, gynostegial corona of staminal and interstaminal elements fused into tube, tube 5–8 mm, obscuring gynostegium; style-head extension absent. |[[Araujia odorata|Araujia odorata]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Sepals ovate, leaflike, 3–7 mm wide; corollas funnelform, white or light pink, gynostegial corona of 5 distinct staminal elements, each to 3.9 mm, not fused into tube, tube 12.1–15.9 mm, not obscuring gynostegium; style-head extension 2-fid, 3.5 mm. |[[Araujia sericifera|Araujia sericifera]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Araujia |author=C. Lee Kimmel;Alexander Krings |authority=Brotero |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Apocynaceae |distribution=South America;introduced also in Central America;Europe;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London |publication year=1818 |special status=Introduced |source xml= |genus=Araujia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Apocynaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Apocynaceae (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/Special status (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Araujia.