Monococcus echinophorus (Monococcus echinophorus)
Description
Monococcus echinophorus is the only plant species of the genus Monococcus from the family of the Pokeweed (Phytolaccaceae). She comes from Australia and from Pacific Islands. Monococcus echinophorus grows as a shrub with stature heights of 1 to 3 meters. The bark of young branches is finely hairy. The changeable leaves are divided into petiole and leaf blade. The petiole is between 5 and 15 millimeters long. The egg-shaped to lanceolate with a length of 3 to 10 centimeters and a width of 1 to 3 centimeters leaf blade has a smooth to irregular notched and wavy leaf margin. Monococcus echinophorus is monoecious ( Monözie ) or dioecious ( Diözie ) getrenntgeschlechtig. The flowers are in a terminal or pendulous, drooping racial inflorescence together, which extends to the fruit period, then as a fruit stand, up to 25 centimeters in length. In the axils of two bracts stand on short pedicels flowers. The always unisexual flowers have only a length of 2 to 3 millimeters. The four bracts are white. The male flowers contain ten to twenty stamens The female flowers contain a single carpel The 4 to 6 millimeters long achenes are covered with hooks, first green, then brown and contains only one seed. Monococcus echinophorus flowers in the australian winter.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Caryophyllales
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Family: Phytolaccaceae
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Genus: Monococcus
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