APODISCUS Hutchinson [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 441, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
APODISCUS Hutchinson [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 1912, lviii. Mém. viii. 205.
Information
Flowers monœcious. Petals absent. Male flower: Sepals 5, imbricate. Disk-glands 5, fleshy, alternating with the stamens. Stamens 5, opposite the sepals; filaments free; anthers introse, cells distinct, subglobose, diverging from the apex. Rudimentary ovary depressed-globose, hirsute. Female flower: Sepals as in the male. Disk absent. Ovary 4-celled; styles 4, short, thick, swollen towards the apex, incurved; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit not seen. —A small tree. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, rather large, coriaceous, entire, penninerved; stipules caducous, lanceolate. Male flowers small, spicate; spikes in axillary fascicles of 2–5, sometimes with a solitary pedicellate flower towards the base; bracts small, solitary, subtending each flower.
Notes
This genus is allied to Thecacoris and Mæsobotrya; from the former it differs in having the male spikes in fascicles and in the absence of petals, from the latter by the 4-celled fruit, and from both by the absence of a disk from the female flower.
APODISCUS Hutchinson [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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