Platytheca

Plant Characteristics

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Scientific Names

Read about Platytheca in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Platytheca (Greek, broad anther-cells). Treman- draceae. Small shrub, somewhat heath-like, suitable for greenhouse culture. Leaves whorled: fls. 5-merous, numerous, borne toward the end of the branches, light purple, about 1 in. across, center marked with a red star; stamens distinctly in 2 rows, anthers continuous on the same plane as the filament, with 4 parallel cells; disk inconspicuous: caps, loculicidally dehiscent, 4-valved. One species. Austral.—Platytheca belongs to a small beautiful and distinct family of Australian shrubs, composed of 3 genera, of which Tetratheca is the dominant type. The Tremandra family resembles the Poly gala family in the structure of the caps., but differs in the regularity and estivation of the fl.; it resembles the Pittosporaceae in having a very small embryo immersed in copious albumen, and particularly the genus Cheiranthera in having anthers which open by a pore at the top. The three genera of Tremandraceae are distinguished from one another by the anthers; Tremandra differs from the other two in having the anthers jointed with the filaments; in Platytheca the anthers have 4 cells all in the same plane; in Tetratheca the anthers are 2-celled or 4-celled, with 2 cells in front of the 2 others. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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