Compilation
Cicca discoidea

a tree, 30–50 ft. high or sometimes a shrub; branches finely sulcate, subterete; lateral flowering branchlets up to 2 1/2 in. long, spreading, puberulous or rarely glabrous; leaves ovate-elliptic to obovate-oblanceolate, rounded or very shortly acuminate at the apex, varying from rounded to cuneate at the base, 1–4 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, thinly chartaceous or membranous, glabrous on both surfaces except the sometimes puberulous midrib below; lateral nerves 6–12 on each side, spreading, slightly raised on both surfaces; veins slender and rather close; petiole 1 1/2–2 iin. long, tomentulose or glabrous; stipules soon falling off, oblong-linear, 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, membranous, glabrescent; flowers diœcious; males numerous, in fascicles in the axils of the leaves, females similarly arranged but only about 2 in each fascicle; male pedicel very slender, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, glabrous or sparingly pubescent, female stouter, 2–3 lin. long, glabrous or rather densely puberulous; bracts large, ovate-orbicular, membranous, soon falling off; male flowers: sepals 4, obovate-oblong, 1/2 lin. long, glabrous; disc fleshy, entire, glabrous; stamens 4; filaments free to the base; anthers dehiscing longitudinally; female flowers: sepals 4, larger than those of the male; disc large, fleshy, flat, entire, very minutely puberulous; ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; styles connate at the base, the free parts spreading and flattened, bilobed; capsule 3–4-lobed, 4 lin. in diam., glabrous; seeds triquetrous, rounded on the back, smooth and blackish. null