familyKoeberliniaceae
genusKoeberlinia
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Koeberlinia
Flora 15(2, Beibl.): 73. 1832.
Common names: Allthorn junco c rown-of-thorns corona-de-Cristo
Etymology: For Christoph Ludwig Koeberlin, 1794–1862, German clergyman and botanist
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Plants unscented. Leaves evanescent. Flowers: sepals each often subtending a nectary; filaments thickened in middle; anthers ellipsoid; gynophore slender, elongating in fruit; style straight; stigma minute. Berries globose, ± fleshy. Seeds cochleate-reniform or orbicular to reniform, slightly rugulose.
Distribution
sw United States, n Mexico, South America (Bolivia)
Discussion
Species 2 (1 in the flora).
Koeberlinia holacantha W. C. Holmes, K. L. Yip & Rushing is known only from Departamento Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The Seri tribe of coastal Sonora, Mexico, traditionally fumigate their huts with the black, oily smoke from burning wood of Koeberlinia (R. S. Felger and M. B. Moser 1985).
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
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hypogynous +
dehiscing +
ellipsoid +
globose +
fleshy +
absent +
persistent +
incumbent +
absent +
scanty +
distinct +
thickened +
bisexual +
rotate;crateriform campanulate or urceolate +
indehiscent +
elongating +
slender +
axillary +
pinnate +
evanescent +
subtending +
1-carpellate +
axile +
bitegmic +
anatropous +
absent +
hypogynous +
persistent +
absent +
imbricate +
attached +
distinct +
equal +
absent +
Flora +
1832 +
not arillate +
blackish +
2;4 +
rugulose +
orbicular;reniform +
persistent +
absent +
branched +
erect +
capitate +
unlobed +
minute +
absent +
straight +
Koeberlinia +
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unscented +