![]() ![]() without holding leaf up to light, reddish brown, contrasting sharply against color of leaf leaves glabrous or glabrescent below. ![]() Stipules narrowly lanceolate, 5-10 mm, early caducous, on young growth leaving a large conspicuous pale brown scar leaves with 10-14 pairs of lateral veins in dried material pellucid dots and streaks throughout leaf blade usually clearly visible at × 10 mag. Stipules broadly triangular or broadly ovate, minute, 1-2 mm Stipules narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1.5-10 mm Between some species, the flowers and fruit offer few diagnostic characters. More gatherings are needed for the genus from China, Myanmar, India, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, from which more accurate, detailed, and standardized descriptions and keys can be drawn. In Chinese species: flowers in axillary glomerules disk lobes in same row as stamens style entire capsule fleshy. ![]() Seeds several, ovoid or obovoid, arillate, aril completely covering seed, membranous or fleshy, often brightly colored, soft, partly fimbriate.Ībout 180 species: tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America, and the Pacific islands seven species in China. Capsule fleshy to leathery, globose, ellipsoid or 3-angled when fresh, mostly 6-ribbed when dry, (2 or)3(or 4)-valvate, dehisced valves often naviculate sepals, stamen filaments, disk, and disk lobes generally persistent at capsule base, style remnant often persistent at apex. Ovary superior, 1-loculed placentas 2-4, each with several ovules style 1, entire or distally 3-branched, sometimes very short stigma capitate, 3-lobed when style is entire. Stamens (6-)8-10(-12) filaments inserted on rim of disk cup. Disk cuplike, adnate to inside of calyx tube, free from ovary, rim lobed lobes triangular, oblong, or clavate, usually hairy, either in same row as and alternating with stamens, or in an intrastaminal row. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricate, joined in basal part to form a shallow or deeper cup, free above, cup never adnate to ovary. Flowers perigynous, bisexual, small, usually clustered in axillary, few- to many flowered, sessile or shortly pedunculate fascicles, rarely solitary or in small cymes bracts papery or scalelike, generally ovate, small, congested at fascicle base to form a persistent cushion pedicels usually present, articulate, rarely flowers practically sessile. Leaves alternate, usually petiolate stipules usually small, caducous, rarely larger and/or persistent leaf blade usually pinnate-veined, sometimes 3-veined from base, often with pellucid glandular dots and lines throughout (view at 10 × against light), margin entire or toothed. 1760.Īntigona Vellozo Athenaea Schreber (1789), not Adanson (1763) Vareca Gaertner. ![]()
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