Yellow Coralbells (Elmera racemosa)
Description
Vegetative characteristics [ Edit | Edit Source Code ] Elmera racemosa grows as a perennial herbaceous plant with a height of 10 to 35 cm. It does not form either rhizomes or stolons. The slender, subterranean part of the stem has scaly shaped leaves. The erect, tiny, glandular hairy stem has two to three leaf leaves growing smaller at the top. Most of the leaves are arranged in a basic leaf rosette and are divided into leaf stalk and leaf blade. The little to intensively glandular leaf stalks are 2 to 10 cm long. The 1 to 3 cm long leaf blade is circular to broad kidney shaped with a heart-shaped base and feathery. The leaf margin is composed of five to nine weak, Rounded lobes, which are notched. The leaf surface is glandular. The brownish secondary leaves are membranous and 2 to 5 mm long. Generative Features [ Edit | Edit Source Code ] In a stretched, 10 to 35 cm long, grape-like inflorescences , over the hairy, scaly-shaped wings on the petal stems 10 to 28 flowers. The flowers are hermetic and fivefold with double perianth . The 5 to 9 mm long, bell-shaped, green, white or creamy, intensively glandular flower cup (hypanthium) is fused to one quarter with the fruit node; The free area is 2.5 to 4 mm long. The five triangular to oblong sepals are greenish yellow and 1 to 4 mm long. The five white or cream-colored petals are narrow lanceolate to oblong, 3 to 5 mm long and usually four- to seven-lobed, rarely unlined. There is only the outer circle with five dust- leaves; They do not exceed the petals. The one-fourth-subordinate fruit node is one-chambered. The ovules are completely overgrown and the placentation is parietal. The two 1 to 2.5 mm long sticks do not extend beyond the petals and end in a scar. The flowering period is from July to August. The broad egg-shaped, double-nosed capsule is brown and contains 125 to 150 seeds. The fruit opens between the two short fruit snips. The dark brown seeds are ellipsoidal, 1 to 1.4 mm long and tiny papillous .
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: Saxifragales
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Family: Saxifragaceae
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Genus: Elmera
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