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Pilostyles

Pilostyles
Family: Apodanthaceae
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JANAS 27(2)
PLANTS: Stem parasites. STEMS: not apparent, reduced to a network within the host tissues. LEAVES: reduced to small bracts subtending flowers. FLOWERS: imperfect, minute; sepals 4-5; anthers of staminate flowers sessile on column under margin of disk; ovary of pistillate flower inferior, locule 1; stigmas in ring along disk-like margin of expanded column. FRUITS: fleshy capsules. NOTES: Ca. 20 spp.; tropical Amer., Afr., sw Asia (esp. Iran), and Australia. (Latin: pilos = hair + stylos = pillar or stylus). Only the flowers and bracts are visible on the surface of the host stems. It is not known whether plants of this genus are monoecious or dioecious. REFERENCES: Yatskeivych, George. 1994. Rafflesiaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 239.
Pilostyles aethiopica
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Pilostyles berteroi
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Pilostyles blanchetii
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Pilostyles calliandrae
Media resource of Pilostyles calliandrae
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Pilostyles globosa
Media resource of Pilostyles globosa
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Pilostyles glomerata
Media resource of Pilostyles glomerata
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Pilostyles mexicana
Media resource of Pilostyles mexicana
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Pilostyles pringlei
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Pilostyles sessilis
Media resource of Pilostyles sessilis
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Pilostyles thurberi
Media resource of Pilostyles thurberi
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Pilostyles ulei
Media resource of Pilostyles ulei
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