Herissantia

Medikus

Vorles. Churpfälz. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. 4: 244. 1788.

Etymology: For Louis Antoine Prospere Herissant, 1745 – 1769, French physician, naturalist, and poet
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 251. Mentioned on page 215, 217.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA6 P29 Fryxellia pygmaea.jpegFryxellia pygmaea
Gossypium thurberi
Herissantia crispa
Linny Heagy
Linny Heagy
Linny Heagy

Herbs, perennial, or shrubs, soft-tomentose, not viscid. Stems prostrate to erect. Leaves to ovatelanceolate; corolla subrotate, yellow, orange, or white; staminal column included; ovules 1–3 per carpel; styles 10–14-branched; stigmas capitate. Fruits schizocarps, reflexed, inflated, spheric to subspheric, papery, setose; mericarps 10–12 [–14], 1-celled, without dorsal spur, apex rounded, dehiscent dorsally. Seeds 2–6 per mericarp, spheric, glabrous or setose. x = 7.

Distribution

s United States, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Asia, Australia

Discussion

Species 5 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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rounded +
John La Duke +
Medikus +
asymmetric +  and symmetric +
dissected +, lobed +  and unlobed +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
white +, orange +  and yellow +
subrotate +
s United States +, Mexico +, West Indies +, Central America +, South America +, Asia +  and Australia +
sparse;copious +
For Louis Antoine Prospere Herissant, 1745 – 1769, French physician, naturalist, and poet +
pistillate +  and staminate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
spheric +  and subspheric +
axillary +  and terminal +
tough-fibrous +
connate +  and distinct +
simple +, stipulate +, sessile +, subsessile +  and petiolate +
distichous +  and alternate +
ovatelanceolate +
entire +  and serrate +
wedge--shaped +
3-40-carpellate +
1 +  and 3 +
adnate +  and distinct +
Vorles. Churpfälz. Phys.-Ökon. Ges. +
setose +  and glabrous +
spheric +
persistent +
sessile +  and subsessile +
prostrate;erect +
filiform +, linear +  and capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
10-14-branched +
Mallow +
Herissantia +
Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae +
shrub +  and herb +
monoecious +, dioecious +  and hermaphroditic +