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Pentastemona
Sign in to savePentastemona is a genus in the family Stemonaceae, described as a genus in 1982. In 1992, Duyfjes placed the genus in its own family, the Pentastemonaceae, but this is not widely accepted. It is the only monocot genus with pentamerous flower parts (i.e. five petals, five sepals, five stamens and five carpels).
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 3 inbound references to Pentastemona, and connects out to Monocots, Indonesia and plant.
It sits within the topics Endemic flora of Sumatra, Pandanales genera and Stemonaceae.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPandanales
- FamilyStemonaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Stemonaceae
- Collections
- MO
- Recorded in
- Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Stemonaceae
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- taxon name
- Pentastemona
- taxon rank
- genus
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Encyclopedic overview
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Pentastemona is a genus in the family Stemonaceae, described as a genus in 1982. In 1992, Duyfjes placed the genus in its own family, the Pentastemonaceae, but this is not widely accepted. It is the only monocot genus with pentamerous flower parts (i.e. five petals, five sepals, five stamens and five carpels).
The entire genus is endemic to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pentastemona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.