ALSODEIOPSIS Oliv. [family ICACINACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1968) Author: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
ALSODEIOPSIS Oliv. [family ICACINACEAE], in G.P. 1: 996 (1867) & in F.T.A. 1: 356 (1868); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 20B: 359 (1942)
Alsodeiïdium Engl. [family ], P.O.A. C: 248 (1895)
Information
Small trees or shrubs; branchlets tomentose. Leaves alternate, entire, membranous to coriaceous. Flowers axillary in cymes or racemes, pedicellate, hermaphrodite, regular. Sepals 5, free or partially united at the base. Petals 5, free or united up to half their length, valvate. Stamens 5, free, alternating with petals; filaments relatively short; anthers ovate-oblong or sagittate, apiculate. Ovary unilocular, hirsute; style filiform; stigma small, capitate; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit a drupe, oblong-ellipsoid; seed large, woody.
Range
A tropical African genus of 11 species, with one East African representative in Tanganyika
ALSODEIOPSIS Oliv. [family ICACINACEAE]
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