The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·427354GenusPlantae368 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. ›pentaphragma family
Pentaphragma
Plate 1 of 1. (c) Albert Kang, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Albert Kang · via iNaturalist

Pentaphragma

Pentaphragma is a genus of flowering plants. Pentaphragma is the sole genus in Pentaphragmataceae, a family in the order Asterales. These species are fleshy herbs, with asymmetrical leaf blades.They are found in Southeast Asia.Pentaphragma is rayless, but eventually develops rays in at least one of the species studied. This is interpreted as related to secondary woodiness or upright habit within a predominantly herbaceous phylad. The vessel elements of Pentaphragma have features universally interpreted as primitive in...

Continue reading on Wikipedia

31 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Pentaphragma aurantiacum

speciesPentaphragma aurantiacum

Pentaphragma begoniifolium

speciesPentaphragma begoniifolium

Scorpion's Tail

speciesPentaphragma ellipticum

Pentaphragma grandiflorum

speciesPentaphragma grandiflorum

Pentaphragma spicatum

speciesPentaphragma spicatum

Pentaphragma horsfieldii

speciesPentaphragma horsfieldii

Pentaphragma prostratum

speciesPentaphragma prostratum

Pentaphragma sinense

speciesPentaphragma sinense

Pentaphragma honbaense

speciesPentaphragma honbaense

Pentaphragma albiflorum

speciesPentaphragma albiflorum

Pentaphragma viride

speciesPentaphragma viride

Pentaphragma tetrapetalum

speciesPentaphragma tetrapetalum

Pentaphragma tenuiflorum

speciesPentaphragma tenuiflorum

Pentaphragma spatulisepalum

speciesPentaphragma spatulisepalum

Pentaphragma platyphyllum

speciesPentaphragma platyphyllum

Pentaphragma pendulum

speciesPentaphragma pendulum

Pentaphragma paucinerve

speciesPentaphragma paucinerve

Pentaphragma mindanaense

speciesPentaphragma mindanaense

Pentaphragma lanuginosum

speciesPentaphragma lanuginosum

Pentaphragma lambirense

speciesPentaphragma lambirense

Pentaphragma jaheri

speciesPentaphragma jaheri

Pentaphragma insigne

speciesPentaphragma insigne

Pentaphragma gamopetalum

speciesPentaphragma gamopetalum

Pentaphragma cyrtandriforme

speciesPentaphragma cyrtandriforme

Pentaphragma combretiflorum

speciesPentaphragma combretiflorum

Pentaphragma bicolor

speciesPentaphragma bicolor

Pentaphragma bartlettii

speciesPentaphragma bartlettii

Pentaphragma acuminatum

speciesPentaphragma acuminatum

Pentaphragma decurrens

speciesPentaphragma decurrens

Pentaphragma winitii

speciesPentaphragma winitii

Pentaphragma longisepalum

speciesPentaphragma longisepalum

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Pentaphragma in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 427354.