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Hollyhocks
The hollyhocks (Alcea) is a genus of plants in the mallow family (Malvaceae).

Description
Vegetative characteristics
In Alcea species are upright, one-, two-year or short-lived perennial, herbaceous plants. The vegetative parts of plants with stellate hairs (trichomes) are covered, sometimes also with long simple hairs. In the first year they only form a basal rosette of leaves. In the second year, they form a 1-3 m high, more or less unbranched, upright stems with alternate leaves, ending with the inflorescence. The leaves are divided into long petiole and leaf blade. The leaf blade is ovate to round, and depending on the type lobed mild to tiefgeteilt. The leaf margin is crenate to toothed. Stipules are present.

Generative characteristics
The flowers are individually or collectively in the leaf axils, with a total often a long, spiciform inflorescence. The flowers are large but somewhat, hermaphroditic, five parts with double perianth. The six or seven Nebenkelchblätter are fused only at their base. The five fluffy hairy sepals are fused. The wild species in the white, yellow or pink to purple are five free petals are usually longer than 3 cm wide.

The compact dust bags are yellow. Consisting of 15 or more carpels deformed ovary consists of 15 or more chambers, each with only one ovule. There are as many stamens as carpels present. In the subfamily Malvoideae the many stamens are fused tube surrounding a stamp, called the Columna.

The discus gap in at least 15 zerfält fruit smooth or fluffy part hairy fruit. The seeds are smooth or provided with pustules.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockrosen

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The trumpet tongues (Salpiglossis) are a genus of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).

Description

Trumpet tongues are annual or perennial herbaceous plants or shrubs that can reach a height of 0.3 to 1 m. The entire plant is equipped with a thick, sticky hair.

The basal leaves form a rosette, and sometimes can be up to 4-7 cm long, sometimes reaching a length of only 0.2 to 1.5 cm. The leaves are ovate-elliptic, oblong-elliptic or linear-elliptic, are sessile or possess only short petioles. The leaf margin is entire, sinuate-toothed, or sometimes pinnatifid fiederlappig.

The flowers are in panicles or separately growing, almost sessile or 1-2 cm flower stems located, odorless (S. sinuata) or slightly fragrant (S. spinescens). Usually the flowers are offenblütig, sometimes they are also closed, and even stimulating.

The calyx is bell-shaped, but somewhat further to 0.7 to 1 cm long, five-lobed, the lobes of equal length, triangular or oblong. The offenblütigen flowers have a funnel-shaped at the base cylindrical zygomorph crown from 2.3 to 5 cm long, flaring petals, whose edge is notched slightly. The closed flowers have a shorter crown of only 10-11 mm in length.

The capsule fruits are elongated ovoid, 9-15 mm long and dominate the cup only slightly or are even smaller. In each fruit are usually 50-120 seeds, sometimes even up to 300.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompetenzungen

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Pleurothallis is a genus of the orchid family (Orchidaceae). Was published by the English botanist Robert Brown in Hortus Kewensis; … The second edition 5: 211, in 1813, basing his description on the species Epidendrum ruscifolium, originally described by Jacquin, and found in Brazil.

His name is a reference to the type of shooting some of their species, which extends to the sides, forming patterns that seem ribs.

The genus Pleurothallis was ill-defined since its inception. For nearly 200 years this was the genre that would classify any species of the subtribe Pleurothallidinae, when by their morphology was not possible to clearly determine any other genre.

This resulted in nearly 2,100 species subject to a genre completely chaotic. In the last decade, the publication of numerous works with its phylogeny and porteriores cinscunscrição changes in other genera of the subtribe with the submission of large numbers of species to them, left Pleurothallis, once a huge genre, now with only a few dozen species of well-defined morphology.

Then briefly treated in this second Pleurothallis narrowest definition and recent, ie the subgenus Pleurothallis, because this will always be so classified because it includes the type species. This genus is made up just over one hundred species.

The present Pleurothallis ramicaules section usually rounded partially covered by a sheath in the midst of it, and others at the bottom, usually with very short rhizome and leaves rounded or elliptical.

Inflorescence usually racemose is emerging from the apex of the stem. The lateral sepals are entirely concrescive and dorsal is free. The column is short and thick, without wings or teeth and when exposed, and apical anther.

Source: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleurothallis

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