Mahernia

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 Mahernia subsp. var.  
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Mahernia (anagram of Hermannia). Sterculiaceae. One very fragrant herb-like plant in greenhouses, and perhaps one or two others are cultivated. By some united with Hermannia.

Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft; petals 5, with hollow claws, twisted in the bud; stamens 5, opposite the petals, the filaments prominently enlarged or dilated at about the middle (and thus differing from Hermannia, which has no sudden enlargement in the filaments), the anthers long; ovary 5-loculed, ripening into a coriaceous caps, with many seeds.—More than 30 herbs and subshrubs of S. Afr., mostly with incised lvs. and drooping, bell-shaped fls.


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