Edgeworthia

Meisner

Denkschr. Königl.-Baier. Ges. Regensburg 3: 280. 1841.

Introduced
Etymology: For Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, 1812–1881 Irish botanist and British civil servant in Bengal
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 385. Mentioned on page 381.
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Daphne mezereum
Edgeworthia gardneri
Linny Heagy
Linny Heagy
Linny Heagy

Shrubs, deciduous, to 3.5 m. Stems erect, ternately branched, not jointed, thick, sericeous, glabrescent. Leaves usually clustered distally, petiolate; blade lanceolate to oblong, surfaces glabrescent. Inflorescences axillary, capitate, often drooping, pedunculate; bracts absent. Flowers: hypanthium tubular, often curved; calyx 4-lobed, lobes spreading; petals absent; stamens 8, included, adnate to hypanthium; style included, linear; stigma clavate. Fruits drupaceous, brown, dry to leathery, enclosed at base by persistent hypanthium.

Distribution

Introduced; Asia (w China), Asia (Himalaya), cultivated in warm, temperate regions

Discussion

Species 4 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

... more about "Edgeworthia"
Lorin I. Nevling Jr. +  and Kerry Barringer +
Meisner +
lanceolate;oblong +
4-lobed +
Asia (w China) +, Asia (Himalaya) +, cultivated in warm +  and temperate regions +
achlorophyllous +
For Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, 1812–1881 Irish botanist and British civil servant in Bengal +
indehiscent +
dry +  and leathery +
1(-5)-carpellate +
Denkschr. Königl.-Baier. Ges. Regensburg +
crassinucellate +, carunculate +, arillate +  and bitegmic +
hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
Introduced +
diplostemonous +
not jointed +  and branched +
glabrescent +  and sericeous +
Edgeworthia +
Thymelaeaceae +
lignified +