Letestuella

G.Taylor
Source: 
SSA
Synonym(s): 
Leiothylax sensu Obermeyer: 208 (1970).
Description: 
Roots thalloid. Stems elongated, branching up to 50 mm long. Leaves linear or forked with linear segments, up to 40 mm long, often with stipule-like teeth at base. Flowers solitary or in irregular clusters, subsessile at anthesis; pedicel elongating to +/- 10 mm long in fruit; spathella oblong-ovoid, becoming campanulate with revolute teeth after rupturing. Perianth of 2 segments, one on each side of andropodium. Stamens (1)2; pollen in monads. Ovary 1-locular; stigmas 2, linear. Capsules globose, smooth, opening by equal and caducous valves.
Distribution: 
Species 1: Letestuella tisserantii G.Taylor, Kunene River, Namibia. Leiothylax warmingii sensu Podlech: 1 (1966) and Obermeyer: 208 (1970) is, according to Cusset: 209 (1980), most probably Letestuellatisserantii. The genus Leiothylax with 3 species in tropical Africa has not been recorded from sthn Afr.
Classification: 
PODOSTEMACEAE

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