Triumfetta

Chinese bur Triumfetta rhomboidea, copyright Vinayaraj.

Belongs within: Malvaceae.

Triumfetta is a tropical genus of trees and shrubs bearing globose fruits covered with hooked bristles.

Characters (from Harden 1990): Herbs or shrubs, densely stellate-hairy. Leaves alternate, often 2-ranked, entire, toothed or lobed, leaves subtending inflorescences often smaller. Flowers clustered in shortly-pedunculate cymes, often forming interrupted panicles, leaves reducing in size up inflorescence; shortly pedicellate. Sepals hooded. Petals glabrous. Sepals and petals inserted below the hairy, disc-like receptacle that bears the numerous stamens. Ovary 2-locular, style as long as the stamens. Fruit more or less globose, covered with hooked bristles.

<==Triumfetta
|--T. albidaLK14
|--T. appendiculataK90
|--T. aquilaLK14
|--T. bradshawiiLK14
|--T. breviaculeataLK14
|--T. carteriLK14
|--T. cladaraLK14
|--T. clivorumLK14
|--T. coronataLK14
|--T. kenneallyiLK14
|--T. lappulaC55
|--T. longipedunculataLK14
|--T. micracanthaLK14
|--T. mitchelliiLK14
|--T. monstrosaLK14
|--T. nutansLK14
|--T. pentandraLK14
|--T. plumigeraLK14
|--T. pustulataLK14
|--T. reflexaLK14
|--T. repensBMM99
|--T. rhomboideaP03
|--T. rubiginosaLK14
|--T. ryeaeLK14
| |--T. r. ssp. ryeaeLK14
| |--T. r. ssp. brevipetalaLK14
| `--T. r. ssp. hirsutaLK14
|--T. semitrilobaJ87
|--T. simulansLK14
|--T. tomentosaDD73
|--T. triandraLK14
`--T. trisectaLK14

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BMM99] Braun, U., J. Mouchacca & E. H. C. McKenzie. 1999. Cercosporoid hyphomycetes from New Caledonia and some other South Pacific islands. New Zealand Journal of Botany 37: 297–327.

[C55] Candolle, A. de. 1855. Géographie Botanique Raisonée: Ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l’époque actuelle vol. 2. Librairie de Victor Masson: Paris.

[DD73] Deb, D. B., & R. M. Dutta. 1973. Contribution to the flora of Tirap Frontier Division. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 69 (3): 547–573.

[J87] Judd, W. S. 1987. Floristic study of Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya National Parks, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum—Biological Sciences 32 (1): 1–136.

[K90] Keighery, G. J. 1990. Vegetation and flora of Shark Bay, Western Australia. In: Berry, P. F., S. D. Bradshaw & B. R. Wilson (eds) Research in Shark Bay: Report of the France-Australe Bicentenary Expedition Committee pp. 61–87. Western Australian Museum.

[LK14] Lyons, M. N., G. J. Keighery, L. A. Gibson & T. Handasyde. 2014. Flora and vegetation communities of selected islands off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 205–244.

[P03] Paul, T. K. 2003. Botanical observations on the Purulia pumped storage hydropower project area, Bagmundi Hills, Purulia district, West Bengal. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 45: 121–142.

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