View source for Cottsia ← Cottsia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Cottsia |accepted_authority=Dubard & Dop |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Rev. Gén. Bot. |place=20: [358-]359, fig. 1. 1908 |year=1908 }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Malpighiaceae;Cottsia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malpighiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cottsia]]</div></div> |etymology=Based on an anagram of Scott; for George Francis Scott Elliot, 1862–1934, Scottish botanist |volume=Volume 12 |mention_page=page 355, 356 |treatment_page=page 362 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> twining, wiry, slender, with woody base, sometimes seeming shrubby when grazed. <b>Leaves</b> usually bearing pair of stalked glands or eglandular processes on blade margin near base; stipules interpetiolar, distinct. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal on lateral shoots, 2–4-flowered umbels. <b>Pedicels</b> raised on peduncles. <b>Flowers</b> all chasmogamous, 6+ mm diam., showy with visible petals, stamens, and styles; calyx glands usually 8 (anterior sepal usually eglandular, 4 lateral usually 2-glandular); corollas bilaterally symmetric, petals lemon yellow, glabrous; stamens [2](4–)5, 2 fertile, opposite posterior-lateral sepals, [0–](2–)3 staminodial, opposite anterior and anterior-lateral sepals, (staminodial filaments rudimentary); fertile anthers subequal, staminodial anthers absent; pistil 3-carpellate, carpels completely connate in ovary; style 1, borne on anterior carpel, cylindric; stigma terminal, capitate [truncate], large. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, breaking into 3 samaras; samaras bearing 1 elongate dorsal wing thickened on adaxial edge, veins bending toward thinner abaxial edge, lateral wings absent; nut reticulate and often parallel-rugose on sides, wall thick, tough. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=sw United States;n Mexico. |discussion=<p>Species 3 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Cottsia |authority=Dubard & Dop |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Malpighiaceae |distribution=sw United States;n Mexico. |reference=None |publication title=Rev. Gén. Bot. |publication year=1908 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_418.xml |genus=Cottsia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Malpighiaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Malpighiaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Cottsia.