Langsdorffia
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Description
Herbaceous, fleshy parasites.
Inflorescences unisexual with trimerous, pedicellate ♂ flowers or with very numerous ♀ flowers apparently laterally connate in their lower parts, having a short tubular perianth and one style.
Inflorescences appearing endogenously from the cylindrical parts of tubers, basally surrounded by an irregularly lobed sheath.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Central and tropical South America present, Madagascar present
3 spp., one in Madagascar (L. malagasica (FAWC.) ), one in Malesia (New Guinea), and one in Central and tropical South America (L. hypogaea MART.). .
Citation
MART 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 140
Hook.f. 1880 – In: B. & H., Gen. Pl. 3: 236
Engl. 1889 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 3: 262
ENDL. 1836: Gen. Pl.: 74
Hook.f. 1856 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 29
MART 1832 – In: Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl.: 182
KLOTZSCH 1847 – In: Linnaea: 460
HARMS 1935: p. 335. – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam., ed. 2, 16b: f. 169
EICHL. 1869 – In: Mart. Fl. Bras.: 9