Arthraerua

(Kuntze) Schinz
Source: 
SSA
Synonym(s): 
Aerua Juss. sect. Arthraerua Kuntze: 272 (1886).
Description: 
Low rounded semisucculent subshrubs, repeatedly branched; branches articulate, becoming striate. Leaves opposite, scale-like. Inflorescences small, dense, terminal, woolly spikes, bracteate. Flowers bisexual, solitary in axils of bracts. Tepals 5, free, 1-nerved, acuminate, scarious, silky. Stamens 5, free; quadrate pseudostaminodes fused to filaments; anthers 2-thecous, divergent at base. Ovary glabrous; ovules solitary on a basal funicle; style slender; stigma capitate. Capsule indehiscent, falling early with perianth.
Distribution: 
Monotypic: Arthraerua leubnitziae (Kuntze) Schinz, confined to the west coast of Namibia.
Classification: 
AMARANTHACEAE

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