Pectinaria
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Read about Pectinaria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Pectinaria (comb-like). Asclepiadaceae. The genus as described by Haworth, not of other authors, comprises succulent leafless herbs: sts. tufted, usually procumbent, acutely, obtusely or obscurely 4-8-angled: fls. small, solitary or in fascicles in the grooves or on the sides between the angles; calyx 5-parted; corolla small, budlike, with a short cup-shaped hemispheric or broad and shallow tube and 5 lobes connate at the apex; corona double, outer cuplike and variably cut into 10 to numerous teeth or of 5 minute lobes, inner of 5 lobes incumbent upon the backs of the anthers or erect and about equaling or longer than them and connivent-erect over them; filaments of the stamens connate, forming a tube around the ovary and adnate to the dilated top of the style: follicles narrowly fusiform, glabrous.—Five species, all S. African. The following species have been intro. at Kew: P. sax-atlilis, N. E. Br. Sts. acutely 4-angled, with flat or slightly concave sides and distant acute deltoid teeth along the angles: corolla broadly ovoid or subglobose, covered with fine hairs on the inner surface, blackish purple or purple-brown. P. asperifolia, N. E. Br. Sts. cylindric, with 6-8 series of closely placed tubercles: corolla papillate outside and within also pentagonally subglobose, with the papillae; on the inner surface covered with short spikelike processes, dull purplish outside, the whole surface inside frosted white, dotted with crimson. p. Tracy Hubbard. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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