Table 3.
Principal features of the new Haplophyllum species and related species
| Traits |
H. linifolium |
H. rosmarinifolium |
H. bastetanum |
H. coronatum |
H. suaveolens |
H. blanchei |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Branches and stems hair-covering | Hairy | Glabrous to glabrescent | Hairy | Hairy | Hairy | Glabrous to sublanate | ||||||
| Leaves | ||||||||||||
| Shape | Elliptical | Linear to narrowly spathulate | Oblanceolate to elliptical | Oblanceolate | Lanceolate to oblanceolate | Lanceolate-obovate to elliptical | ||||||
| Hair-covering | Hairy | Glabrous | Glabrous | Hairy | Hairy | Hairy | ||||||
| Trisect leaves | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||||||
| Sepals | ||||||||||||
| Shape | Ovate-lanceolate | Ovate-lanceolate | Lanceolate | Lanceolate | Lanceolate | Triangular | ||||||
| Hair-covering | Glabrescent to Hairy | Glabrous to Hairy | Hairy | Hairy | Hairy | Glabrous to ciliated | ||||||
| Arrangement | Overlapping | Overlapping | Not overlapping | Not overlapping | Not overlapping | Not Overlapping | ||||||
| Petals | ||||||||||||
| Colour | Yellow | Yellow | Dark green | Yellow | Yellow | Deep magenta | ||||||
| Hair-covering | Glabrous | Glabrous | Hairy | Hairy | Hairy | Glabrous | ||||||
| Filaments | ||||||||||||
| Colour | Yellow | Yellow | Dark green | Yellow | Yellow | Magenta | ||||||
| Monadelphy | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||||||
| Fruit | ||||||||||||
| Apex of lobes | Appendiculate | Appendiculate | Exappendiculate | Appendiculate | Appendiculate | Exappendiculate | ||||||
| Hair-covering | Hairy at the apex | Glabrous | Hairy | Glabrous or hairy | Glabrous | Glabrous | ||||||
| Ovules/loculi | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| Seed ridges | Transverse | Transverse | Longitudinal | Transverse | Tranverse | Transverse | ||||||
| Chromosome number (2n) | 36 | 36 | 18 | – | – | – | ||||||