Zenobia_(plant)

<i>Zenobia</i> (plant)

Zenobia (plant)

Genus of shrubs

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Zenobia, called honeycup, is a North American genus of shrubs in the family Ericaceae.

Description

Zenobia is a hairless shrub, sometimes with a waxy coating on the foliage. The leaves are elliptical or egg-shaped. The plant has numerous white flowers in flat-topped or elongated arrays, each flower has 5 separate sepals and 5 united petals, forming a bell-shaped corolla. Each flower can produce up to 200 egg-shaped seeds in a dry capsule.[1]

Fossil record

10 fossil fruits of †Zenobia fasterholtensis have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark.[2]

Species[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Flora of North America, Zenobia D. Don, 1834.
  2. [2]
    Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985
  3. [3]
    The Plant List, search for Zenobia


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