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STROMBOSIA Blume [family OLACACEAE]
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: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
STROMBOSIA Blume [family OLACACEAE], Bijdr.: 1154 (1826); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 16B: 21 (1935)
Information
Trees. Leaves petiolate, alternate, entire, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glabrous; veins very prominent beneath, ± impressed above, tertiary veins characteristically parallel to one another (as also in Strombosiopsis). Inflorescence axillary, with the flowers fasciculate on a very short lateral shoot, padlike. Flowers bisexual, pedicellate. Calyx small, tubular, 5-lobed, accrescent, adnate to the ovary. Petals 5, valvate, with a fine indumentum on the inner surface usually confined to the upper half. Stamens 5, epipetalous; filaments free for only a short distance; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary semi-inferior to inferior, 3–5-locular, borne on a disk or partially immersed in it, scarcely lobed; ovules 1 per locule, pendulous from a central placenta; style short; stigma 3–5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, bearing the remains of the calyx at the apex.
Range
A palaeotropical genus containing about ten species.
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: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
STROMBOSIA Blume [family OLACACEAE], Bijdr.: 1154 (1826); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 16B: 21 (1935)
Information
Trees. Leaves petiolate, alternate, entire, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glabrous; veins very prominent beneath, ± impressed above, tertiary veins characteristically parallel to one another (as also in Strombosiopsis). Inflorescence axillary, with the flowers fasciculate on a very short lateral shoot, padlike. Flowers bisexual, pedicellate. Calyx small, tubular, 5-lobed, accrescent, adnate to the ovary. Petals 5, valvate, with a fine indumentum on the inner surface usually confined to the upper half. Stamens 5, epipetalous; filaments free for only a short distance; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary semi-inferior to inferior, 3–5-locular, borne on a disk or partially immersed in it, scarcely lobed; ovules 1 per locule, pendulous from a central placenta; style short; stigma 3–5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, bearing the remains of the calyx at the apex.
Range
A palaeotropical genus containing about ten species.
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: G. Ll. Lucas
Names
STROMBOSIA Blume [family OLACACEAE], Bijdr.: 1154 (1826); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 16B: 21 (1935)
Information
Trees. Leaves petiolate, alternate, entire, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glabrous; veins very prominent beneath, ± impressed above, tertiary veins characteristically parallel to one another (as also in Strombosiopsis). Inflorescence axillary, with the flowers fasciculate on a very short lateral shoot, padlike. Flowers bisexual, pedicellate. Calyx small, tubular, 5-lobed, accrescent, adnate to the ovary. Petals 5, valvate, with a fine indumentum on the inner surface usually confined to the upper half. Stamens 5, epipetalous; filaments free for only a short distance; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary semi-inferior to inferior, 3–5-locular, borne on a disk or partially immersed in it, scarcely lobed; ovules 1 per locule, pendulous from a central placenta; style short; stigma 3–5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, bearing the remains of the calyx at the apex.
Range
A palaeotropical genus containing about ten species.
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