Penaea
Sign in to savethumb|Penaea atop Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMyrtales
- FamilyPenaeaceae
Native toCape Provinces
via GBIF · Kew POWO
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 44
- With media
- 39
- Family
- Penaeaceae
- Collections
- RSA, NY, MO, NHMUK, ANSP, MIN
- Recorded in
- South Africa, ?, [Afrique Du Sud]
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Penaeaceae
- Image
- Penaea cneorum ssp. gigantea 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Penaea
- taxon name
- Penaea
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxonomic type
- Penaea mucronata
- topic's main category
- Category:Penaea
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thumb|Penaea atop Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa
Penaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Penaeaceae, found in southern South Africa. They have an unusual type of embryo sac development; after two rounds of mitosis, four nuclei are formed at each pole, leading to a mature embryo sac containing four polar groups each with three cells. When found in other taxa, these embryo sacs are termed Penaea-type.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Penaea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.