Parasitic Plant Connection

Lennoaceae

Family Description

Distribution Map

Lennoaceae Distribution Map

List of Genera

Photographs

Lennoa

  1. Lennoa madreporoides. Habit of plant emerging from sand. Mexico, Edo. de Oaxaca La Ventosa, in stabilized dunes on Pacific coast. Photo by Kevin Nixon, 1978. Archived at PlantSystematics.org.
  2. Lennoa madreporoides. Close-up of inflorescence. Mexico, Edo. de Oaxaca La Ventosa, in stabilized dunes on Pacific coast. Photo by Kevin Nixon, 1978.
  3. Lennoa madreporoides. Habit of excavated flowering shoot. Guatemala, Peten District, Cerro Cahui Biotope Preserve, 2 km from El Remate along the eastern edge of Lake Peten Itza.  Photo December 2007 by Katharine B. Gregg.
  4. Lennoa madreporoides. Closer view of the flowers. Guatemala, Peten District, Cerro Cahui Biotope Preserve, 2 km from El Remate along the eastern edge of Lake Peten Itza.  Photo December 2007 by Katharine B. Gregg.

Pholisma (including Ammobroma)

  1. Pholisma arenarium. Habitat. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
  2. Pholisma arenarium. Inflorescence. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
  3. Pholisma arenarium. Close-up of flower. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
  4. Pholisma arenarium. Inflorescence in hand. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
  5. Pholisma arenarium. Excavated plants showing various developmental stages. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
  6. Pholisma arenarium. Haustorial connection. Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
  7. Pholisma arenarium. Connection to host root (light). Sand flats of Morro Bay, California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird
  8. Pholisma arenarium. Habit of plants. Baja, California. Photo by George Yatskievych
  9. Pholisma arenarium. Inflorescence. Josua Tree N. M., California. Photo by George Yatskievych.
  10. Pholisma culiacana. Excavated plants attached to host root. Photo by George Yatskievych.
  11. Pholisma sonorae. Habitat. Southern California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird.
  12. Pholisma sonorae. Top view of inflorescence in sand. Southern California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird
  13. Pholisma sonorae. Top view of inflorescence in sand.. Photo by George Yatskievych.
  14. Pholisma sonorae. Excavated plant. Southern California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird
  15. Pholisma sonorae. Side view of inflorescences emerging from the sand. Southern California. Photo by Wm. Vance Baird

Phylogeny

These holoparasites have traditionally been placed in their own family, but APG2 lumps "Lennoaceae" with Boraginaceae, a family with which they are clearly related as shown by both morphological and molecular evidence. Boraginaceae s. lat. is currently unresolved at the base of the euasterid I clade.

References

SIUC / College of Science / Parasitic Plant Connection / Lennoaceae
URL: http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Lennoaceae/index.html
Last updated: 08-Jan-08 / dln