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ACRIDOCARPUS Guill. & Perr. [family MALPIGHIACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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: E. LAUNERT (British Museum (Natural History))
Names
ACRIDOCARPUS Guill. & Perr. [family MALPIGHIACEAE], in Fl. Seneg. Tent.: 123, t. 29 (Sept. 1831), nom. conserv. propos.
Heteropteris DC. sect. Anomalopteris [family ], Prodr. 1: 592 (1824)
Anomalopteris (DC.) G. Don [family MALPIGHIACEAE], Gen. Syst. 1: 647 (Aug. 1831); O. Ktze., Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 87 (1891)
Information
Erect, suberect, trailing or climbing shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, usually with glands on undersurface at base, and sometimes with 2 rows of smaller glands parallel to the margins, exstipulate. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered corymbs, racemes or panicles, axillary or terminating leafy branches; bracts present and persistent, small; bracteoles at base of pedicels, sometimes with a circular gland at base. Flowers actinomorphic or nearly so. Calyx ± coriaceous, with 1 or more subcircular sessile or sunken glands; lobes 5, equal or subequal, obtuse. Petals 5, white or yellow, usually clawed, longer than sepals, entire, fimbriate or lacerate. Stamens 10; anthers basifixed, glabrous; filaments usually thick, somewhat broadened and connate at base, glabrous. Ovary 3-locular, but usually with 1 locule abortive, usually densely sericeous or tomentose-sericeous; styles 2, terete, curved inwards. Samara with a straight or oblique dorsal wing.
Range
A genus of about 30 species, mainly occurring in tropical Africa; one species in Madagascar, one in New Caledonia.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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: E. LAUNERT (British Museum (Natural History))
Names
ACRIDOCARPUS Guill. & Perr. [family MALPIGHIACEAE], in Fl. Seneg. Tent.: 123, t. 29 (Sept. 1831), nom. conserv. propos.
Heteropteris DC. sect. Anomalopteris [family ], Prodr. 1: 592 (1824)
Anomalopteris (DC.) G. Don [family MALPIGHIACEAE], Gen. Syst. 1: 647 (Aug. 1831); O. Ktze., Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 87 (1891)
Information
Erect, suberect, trailing or climbing shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, usually with glands on undersurface at base, and sometimes with 2 rows of smaller glands parallel to the margins, exstipulate. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered corymbs, racemes or panicles, axillary or terminating leafy branches; bracts present and persistent, small; bracteoles at base of pedicels, sometimes with a circular gland at base. Flowers actinomorphic or nearly so. Calyx ± coriaceous, with 1 or more subcircular sessile or sunken glands; lobes 5, equal or subequal, obtuse. Petals 5, white or yellow, usually clawed, longer than sepals, entire, fimbriate or lacerate. Stamens 10; anthers basifixed, glabrous; filaments usually thick, somewhat broadened and connate at base, glabrous. Ovary 3-locular, but usually with 1 locule abortive, usually densely sericeous or tomentose-sericeous; styles 2, terete, curved inwards. Samara with a straight or oblique dorsal wing.
Range
A genus of about 30 species, mainly occurring in tropical Africa; one species in Madagascar, one in New Caledonia.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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: E. LAUNERT (British Museum (Natural History))
Names
ACRIDOCARPUS Guill. & Perr. [family MALPIGHIACEAE], in Fl. Seneg. Tent.: 123, t. 29 (Sept. 1831), nom. conserv. propos.
Heteropteris DC. sect. Anomalopteris [family ], Prodr. 1: 592 (1824)
Anomalopteris (DC.) G. Don [family MALPIGHIACEAE], Gen. Syst. 1: 647 (Aug. 1831); O. Ktze., Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 87 (1891)
Information
Erect, suberect, trailing or climbing shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, usually with glands on undersurface at base, and sometimes with 2 rows of smaller glands parallel to the margins, exstipulate. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered corymbs, racemes or panicles, axillary or terminating leafy branches; bracts present and persistent, small; bracteoles at base of pedicels, sometimes with a circular gland at base. Flowers actinomorphic or nearly so. Calyx ± coriaceous, with 1 or more subcircular sessile or sunken glands; lobes 5, equal or subequal, obtuse. Petals 5, white or yellow, usually clawed, longer than sepals, entire, fimbriate or lacerate. Stamens 10; anthers basifixed, glabrous; filaments usually thick, somewhat broadened and connate at base, glabrous. Ovary 3-locular, but usually with 1 locule abortive, usually densely sericeous or tomentose-sericeous; styles 2, terete, curved inwards. Samara with a straight or oblique dorsal wing.
Range
A genus of about 30 species, mainly occurring in tropical Africa; one species in Madagascar, one in New Caledonia.
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