Rulingia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Rulingia (after J. Ph. Ruling, a botanist of Gottingen). Sterculiaceae. Shrubs or subshrubs with stellate tomentum or hairs, useful as greenhouse plants and for the rockery in warm climates, as the southern United States. Leaves entire, toothed or lobed; stipules narrow and deciduous: fls. mostly white, small, in lf.-opposed or terminal, rarely axillary cymes; calyx 5-lobed; petals 5, broad and concave or convolute at base, with a small, broad, or linear ligula at the top; stamens 5 without anthers, linear-lanceolate and alternate with the petals 5 perfect and opposite the petals; ovary sessile, 5- celled: fr. tomentose or beset with prickles or soft setae, loculicidally valvate. About 20 species, all Australian except one from Madagascar.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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