Abstract

MUNOZ, Aida M.; VALLEJO C, Franco A.  and  SANCHEZ O, Manuel S.. Morphology and anatomy of flowers and seeds of Lippia alba.. Acta Agron. [online]. 2007, vol.56, n.1, pp.7-12. ISSN 0120-2812.

For description three accesions of L. alba from Llanos Orientales and Valle (Colombia) and Costa Rica (Central America) were used. The inflorescences are simples and racemoses. The flowers are small, sessiles, lilac color, disposed trought of the rachis, localizated in the axillas, coupled and apposited. The flowers in primary, secondary and tertiary branches present two white sepals, pubescents with 1.5 mm of length. There is a green bract covering the sepals with a length between 3.0 and 5.0 mm. An openned flower measures up to 7.0 mm and between 3.0 and 4.0 mm of wide.

They are gamopetalous, zygomorphic, pubescents, tubulars, bilabiates, with four petals, hypogynous, syncarpic gynaeceum with two carpels, upper ovary, white-green style, yellow - greenish stigma. The anthers measure 0.2 mm of length. The fruit is a diachene, with two small seeds, its fruit size is around 2.0 mm of length and 1.8 mm of wide; white, hard and dry coffee pericarp, pubescent and hard epicarp. The seed had a triangular form which measure between 0,8 mm in length and 0,3 mm wide.

Keywords : Lippia alba; Verbenaceae; floral biology; seeds.

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