Dichrocarpum
Wang & Hsiao
Perennial herbs; stems surrounded at base with fleshy scales. Leaves palmately
compound, rarely ternately 5 -
15-foliolate. Flowers actinomorphic, in terminal scapes
longer than leaves, leafy at top, a dichasium but usually reduced to a single flower. Sepals
5 -
6, petaloid, deciduous. Petals nectariferous, long-clawed with shorter blade. Stamens
10 or more. Carpels 2, connate at base. Follicles constantly 2, connate at base, erect at
first, later much divaricate, spreading, borne on a slender pedicel thickened at base.
Temperate Himalayas and E. Asia; 16 species, one in India.
Literature. TAMURA, M. & L. A. LAUENER (1968) A revision of Isopyrum, Dichrocarpum and their allies. Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 28: 267 - 273.
Temperate Himalayas and E. Asia; 16 species, one in India.
Literature. TAMURA, M. & L. A. LAUENER (1968) A revision of Isopyrum, Dichrocarpum and their allies. Notes R. Bot. Gard. Edinb. 28: 267 - 273.
