Kingdom Plantae Species G. marginatum Rank Genus | Family Geissolomataceae
A.DC. Scientific name Geissoloma marginatum Order Crossosomatales | |
Similar Strasburgeriaceae, Crossosomataceae, Crossosomatales, Huaceae, Aphloia theiformis | ||
Geissoloma is a genus of flowering plants in the monotypic family Geissolomataceae, native to the Cape Province of South Africa. The plants are xerophytic evergreen shrubs and are known to accumulate aluminum.
Contents
Description
Geissoloma marginatum is a low evergreen shrub of ½-1¼ m high, covered in overlapping large, leathery, simple, scale-like, opposite leaves in four rows along the stems. It has very small stipules on the petioles. Flowers are bisexual, subtended by bracts, and have four red to pinkish petaloid sepals, four petals partially united, 8 sepals, and 4 carpels. Fruit is a capsule with four seeds.
Geissoloma marginatum is the only species in the family.
Phylogeny
Recent phylogenetic analysis resulted in the following tree.
References
Geissoloma Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA