Bitterbush (Henoonia myrtifolia)
Description
Henooia myrtifolia is a tree that grows up to two and a half meters high The branches are greyish-colored and occasionally bear spines. The leaves are narrow ovate to reverse-ovate-elliptic or narrow obovate. Towards the front, they are tapering or prickly, the base is wedge-shaped, oblique or heart-shaped and provided with a rolled-back edge. They reach a length of 9.7 to 32.6 and a width of 3.5 to 14.4 millimeters. They are bare, with only a few simple two- to three-cell trichomes on the backThe fünfzähligen blooms stand singly or in tufts in the branch knot The cup is cup-shaped, 2 to 2.5 millimeters long and toothed, these are triangular and provided with some trichomes. The crown measures 1 to 9 millimeters in diameter, it is tubular and with elongated-lanceolate Kronlappen, which bent twice as long as the Kronröhre and at flowering time. The five stamens start in about the middle of the Kronröhre, but do not extend beyond the Kronlappen out. The dust bags have a length of 2 to 2.2 millimeters. The ovary is upper, one-chambered and has oneOvule The thread-like stylus is 6 to 7 millimeters long. The fruits are pointed towards the front and contain a single seed This is egg-shaped, 7 to 8 millimeters long, 5.3 to 6.4 millimeters wide and 5.0 to 5.7 millimeters thick.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Solanales
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Family: Solanaceae
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Genus: Henoonia
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