- Family: Burmanniaceae Blume
Burmannia L.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropics & Subtropics.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Burmanniaceae, E.J. Cowley. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1988
- Habit
- Erect annual or perennial herbs, saprophytic or not, usually unbranched, green or not, 3-40 cm. high
- Stem
- Stems with small alternate colourless scale-like leaves
- Leaves
- Basal leaves usually minute, lanceolate, scale-like, up to 2 mm. long, or a basal rosette of larger, linear, imbricate green leaves, sometimes very few in number
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence terminal, sometimes a single flower, or a dense cyme of 2-30 flowers
- Perianth
- Perianth regular, blue, white, or rarely yellow; tube cylindric or trigonous, prominently 3-angled, winged, ridged or not; tepals 3 or 6, persistent; inner tepals smaller than triangular outer tepals, or lacking
- Stamens
- Stamens 3, in the perianth-tube below the inner tepals, sessile or subsessile, basifixed; thecae globose or clavate, dehiscing transversely; connective with entire or forked to bilobed crest above and sometimes with basal spur
- Pistil
- Ovary 3-locular, with axil placentas, often 3-winged with the perianth; style entire or shortly 3-lobed, equal to the perianth-tube; stigma terminal on style or style-branches
- Fruits
- Capsule 3-angled or 3-winged, crowned by persistent perianth, dehiscing irregularly by slits between the wings
- Seeds
- Seeds ellipsoid, oblong or subglobose; testa thin, reticulate or striate, usually adpressed.
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Distribution
Native to:
Alabama, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hainan, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Korea, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mississippi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oklahoma, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Trinidad-Tobago, Uganda, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virginia, Western Australia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Accepted Species
- Burmannia alba Mart.
- Burmannia aprica (Malme) Jonker
- Burmannia australis Malme
- Burmannia bengkuluensis Tsukaya & Darnaedi
- Burmannia bicolor Mart.
- Burmannia bifaria J.J.Sm.
- Burmannia biflora L.
- Burmannia candelabrum Gagnep.
- Burmannia candida Griff. ex Hook.f.
- Burmannia capitata (Walter ex J.F.Gmel.) Mart.
- Burmannia championii Thwaites
- Burmannia chinensis Gand.
- Burmannia cochinchinensis Gagnep.
- Burmannia coelestis D.Don
- Burmannia coerulea Aver.
- Burmannia compacta Maas & H.Maas
- Burmannia connata Jonker
- Burmannia cryptopetala Makino
- Burmannia damazii Beauverd
- Burmannia dasyantha Mart.
- Burmannia disticha L.
- Burmannia engganensis Jonker
- Burmannia filamentosa D.X.Zhang & R.M.K.Saunders
- Burmannia flava Mart.
- Burmannia foliosa Gleason
- Burmannia geelvinkiana Becc.
- Burmannia gracilis Ridl.
- Burmannia grandiflora Malme
- Burmannia hexaptera Schltr.
- Burmannia indica Jonker
- Burmannia itoana Makino
- Burmannia jonkeri Benthem & Maas
- Burmannia juncea Sol. ex R.Br.
- Burmannia kalbreyeri Oliv.
- Burmannia larseniana D.X.Zhang & R.M.K.Saunders
- Burmannia latialata Pobég.
- Burmannia ledermannii Jonker
- Burmannia longifolia Becc.
- Burmannia luteoalba Gagnep.
- Burmannia lutescens Becc.
- Burmannia madagascariensis Baker
- Burmannia malasica Jonker
- Burmannia micropetala Ridl.
- Burmannia nepalensis (Miers) Hook.f.
- Burmannia oblonga Ridl.
- Burmannia polygaloides Schltr.
- Burmannia pusilla (Miers) Thwaites
- Burmannia sanariapoana Steyerm.
- Burmannia sphagnoides Becc.
- Burmannia steenisii Jonker
- Burmannia stricta Jonker
- Burmannia stuebelii Hieron. & Schltr.
- Burmannia subcoelestis Gagnep.
- Burmannia tenella Benth.
- Burmannia tenera (Malme) Jonker
- Burmannia tisserantii Schltr.
- Burmannia unguiculata Aver.
- Burmannia vaupesiana Benthem & Maas
- Burmannia wallichii (Miers) Hook.f.
Synonyms
Other Data
Burmannia L. appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (8 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Carr, C.E., Malaysia | 18210.000 | |||
Carr, C.E., Malaysia | 23508.000 | |||
Harley, R.M. [22891], Brazil | 72767.000 | |||
Leppard, M. [1044], Brazil | 37079.000 | |||
Rees, T. [63], Papua New Guinea | 46233.000 | |||
Johns, R.J. [9157], New Guinea | 64291.000 | |||
Williamson [557], Zambia | 32980.000 | |||
Poulsen, A.D. [1633], Borneo | 72484.000 |
Bibliography
First published in Sp. Pl.: 287 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Jonker, Monogr. Burmanniac. 57 (1938).
- F.T.A. 7: 11
- Sp. Pl. 287 (1753)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Geerinck in F.C.B., Burmanniaceae: 3 (1970)
- Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 179 (1968)
- H. Perrier in Fl. Madag. 48: 2 (1946)
- Jonker in Med. Bot. Mus. Rijksuniv. Utrecht 51: 57 (1938)
- in Fl. Cap. 5(3): 2 (1913)
- C.H. Wright in F.T.A. 7: 11 (1897)
- G.P. 3(2): 457 (1883)
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 139 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 287 (1753)
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China
The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0