Stinging Serpent (Cevallia sinuata)
Description
Cevallia sinuata is a half-smoke , which is filled with piercing but not restraining hair. The hairs are equipped with two hooks at the tip. The leaves are alternately, narrowly egg-shaped, and lined with margins.The inflorescences are terminally thyrsen-like , typically with a dichasium on the outside and additionally a monochasial or dichasial, strongly contracted paracladia . The flowers are five-fold and almost undeveloped, for each flower there are two linear leaves . The calyx and the petals are of the same shape and size, unaffected, whitish, and membranous, up to the base. The connective of standing in front of the sepals stamens is greatly extended, at its end there is a club-shaped outgrowth, staminodes absent.The fruit is an egg-shaped capsule , on which the cup is placed, which is preserved even after flowering . The chromosome number is n = 13.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Cornales
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Family: Loasaceae
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Genus: Cevallia
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