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OPILIA Roxb. [family OPILIACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
OPILIA Roxb. [family OPILIACEAE], (1802)—Hiepko in Willdenowia 12: 162–182 (1982).
Information
Woody climbers, shrubs or small trees, root parasites. Leaves leathery, glabrous to pubescent. Flowers sweet-scented, arranged in short, catkin-like racemes, usually with pubescent rhachis and pedicels; bracts broadly ovate, peltate, densely imbricate, falling off before anthesis. Petals free, (4–)5, recurved. Stamens exserted. Disk with fleshy lobes alternating with the stamens. Ovary cylindrical to ellipsoid; stigma sessile. Drupe ellipsoid. Embryo with 3 cotyledons, nearly as long as the seed.
Range
Two species, both in tropical Africa, one extending to tropical Asia and northern Australia.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
OPILIA Roxb. [family OPILIACEAE], (1802)—Hiepko in Willdenowia 12: 162–182 (1982).
Information
Woody climbers, shrubs or small trees, root parasites. Leaves leathery, glabrous to pubescent. Flowers sweet-scented, arranged in short, catkin-like racemes, usually with pubescent rhachis and pedicels; bracts broadly ovate, peltate, densely imbricate, falling off before anthesis. Petals free, (4–)5, recurved. Stamens exserted. Disk with fleshy lobes alternating with the stamens. Ovary cylindrical to ellipsoid; stigma sessile. Drupe ellipsoid. Embryo with 3 cotyledons, nearly as long as the seed.
Range
Two species, both in tropical Africa, one extending to tropical Asia and northern Australia.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
OPILIA Roxb. [family OPILIACEAE], (1802)—Hiepko in Willdenowia 12: 162–182 (1982).
Information
Woody climbers, shrubs or small trees, root parasites. Leaves leathery, glabrous to pubescent. Flowers sweet-scented, arranged in short, catkin-like racemes, usually with pubescent rhachis and pedicels; bracts broadly ovate, peltate, densely imbricate, falling off before anthesis. Petals free, (4–)5, recurved. Stamens exserted. Disk with fleshy lobes alternating with the stamens. Ovary cylindrical to ellipsoid; stigma sessile. Drupe ellipsoid. Embryo with 3 cotyledons, nearly as long as the seed.
Range
Two species, both in tropical Africa, one extending to tropical Asia and northern Australia.
OPILIA Roxb. [family OPILIACEAE]
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