Camptocarpus linearis
{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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|image = Camptocarpus linearis.jpg
|image_caption = Photograph of a herbarium specimen of Camptocarpus linearis{{cite web |url= http://legacy.tropicos.org/Image/101549337 |title= Camptocarpus linearis Decne. |author= |date= n.d. |website=Tropicos |publisher=Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=July 22, 2023}}
|genus= Camptocarpus
|species= linearis
|authority= Decne.
|synonyms={{species list
|Symphytonema lineare|(Decne.) Choux
|Tanulepis linearis|(Decne.) Choux}}
}}
Camptocarpus linearis is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae family. It is endemic to Madagascar.{{cite web
|url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:95188-1
|title= Camptocarpus crassifolius Decne.
|author=
|date=n.d.
|website=Plants of the World Online
|publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
|access-date=July 22, 2023}}
Joseph Decaisne,{{IPNI |id=2063-1 |author= Joseph Decaisne |access-date=2023-07-21}} the botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its narrow ({{lang|la|linearis}} in Latin) leaves.{{cite book | last = Stearn | first = William | title = Botanical Latin | publisher = Timber Press David & Charles | location = Portland, Ore. Newton Abbot | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780881926279 }}{{cite book |last=Decaisne |editor-last1=de Candolle |editor-first1=Alphonso |date=1844 |title= Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis |trans-title= Prodrome of the Natural System of the Vegetable Kingdom |chapter=Asclepiadeae |doi= 10.5962/bhl.title.286 |language=la|volume=8 |location=Paris |publisher=Fortin, Masson and Associates |page=494 |isbn=}}
Description
It is a shrub-like plant that is woody only at the base. It has notably slender stems that are 0.5–1 millimeters in diameter. The length between leaves or branches is about 2.5 centimeters. Its lance-shaped, very narrow, linear leaves are 1 millimeter wide by 2.5 centimeters long. The tips and base of the leaves taper to a point. Its short, rudimentary petioles are 2 millimeters long. Its short, sparse Inflorescences occur at the junction between the leaves and stem and have 1–3 flowers. The inflorescences have very short peduncles that are 1 millimeters long, and pedicels that 2 millimeters long. Its very small flowers are 1 millimeter long.{{cite journal |last1= Costantin |last2=Gallaud |date=1907 |title= Revision des Asclépiadacées de Madagascar |trans-title= Revision of the Asclepiadaceae of Madagascar |language=fr |url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4513931#page/767 |journal= Annales des Sciences Naturelles |series=9 |volume=5-6 | pages=333–364}}
=Reproductive biology=
The pollen of Camptocarpus linearis is shed as permanent tetrads.{{cite journal |last1= Verhoeven |first1=Rudolf L. |last2=Venter |first2=Johan T. |date=2001 |title= Pollen Morphology of the Periplocoideae, Secamonoideae, and Asclepiadoideae (Apocynaceae) |jstor= 3298634 |journal= Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |volume=88 |issue=4 |pages=569–582|doi=10.2307/3298634 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/38853 }}
=Distribution and habitat=
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Category:Plants described in 1844
Category:Taxa named by Joseph Decaisne