Schwartzia (Schwartzia)
Description
The Schwartzia species are climbing shrubs or lianas that grow mostly epiphytic or hemiepiphytic . Only in a few species, for example Schwartzia adamantium and Schwartzia brasiliensis , do the purely terrestrial growth forms, that is rooted in the soil, prevail. The screwed , simple, undivided leaves are sessile or short-stalked, rarely also clearly stalked with a little winged petiole. The leathery, bare, oblong-elliptical to obovate leaf bladesare ganzrandig and have on the underside of leaves, usually near the Spreitenrandes on both sides of a series of depressed in the leaf area glands. The weakly developed side nerves, which are invisible on one or both surfaces at times, are brochidodrom, that is, they open like a loop into the next nerve.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Order: Heather-like
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Family: marcgraviaceae
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Genus: Schwartzia
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