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HAMILCOA Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
HAMILCOA Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 107.
Information
Flowers diœcious, apetalous. Male: Sepals 5, imbricate. Stamens 18; anthers subsessile, smooth, 2-celled, dehiscence longitudinal. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Calyx 6-partite. Disk urceolate; ovary 3-celled; styles thick, with 3 free stout stigmas. Fruit capsular, 3-coccous; cocci opening loculicidally from the base upwards; pericarp coriaceous. Seeds large, globose; embryo small, cotyledons broad, flat. —Shrub, climbing; leaves alternate, unequally petioled; petioles pulvinate at the base and apex; flowers racemose; racemes axillary; pedicels thickened.
Range
A single endemic species.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
HAMILCOA Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 107.
Information
Flowers diœcious, apetalous. Male: Sepals 5, imbricate. Stamens 18; anthers subsessile, smooth, 2-celled, dehiscence longitudinal. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Calyx 6-partite. Disk urceolate; ovary 3-celled; styles thick, with 3 free stout stigmas. Fruit capsular, 3-coccous; cocci opening loculicidally from the base upwards; pericarp coriaceous. Seeds large, globose; embryo small, cotyledons broad, flat. —Shrub, climbing; leaves alternate, unequally petioled; petioles pulvinate at the base and apex; flowers racemose; racemes axillary; pedicels thickened.
Range
A single endemic species.
HAMILCOA Prain [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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