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APODYTES Arn. [family ICACINACEAE]
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
APODYTES Arn. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 3: 155 (1840); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 20B: 367 (1942)
Jobalboa Chiov. [family ], Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 19 (1935)
Information
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, penninerved. Flowers in terminal or more rarely axillary panicles, hermaphrodite, regular. Sepals 5, united at the base to give small deltoid lobes, persistent in fruit. Petals 5, free, valvate, oblong-linear, glabrous. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals; filaments subulate, basally attached to petal; anthers almost sagittate. Disk absent. Ovary unilocular, bearing a fleshy lateral lobe; style eccentric; stigma truncate, very small; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit a drupe, with a large lateral appendage, and bearing remains of persistent style.
Range
A genus of about 15 species confined to tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Australia (Queensland).
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
APODYTES Arn. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 3: 155 (1840); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 20B: 367 (1942)
Jobalboa Chiov. [family ], Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 19 (1935)
Information
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, penninerved. Flowers in terminal or more rarely axillary panicles, hermaphrodite, regular. Sepals 5, united at the base to give small deltoid lobes, persistent in fruit. Petals 5, free, valvate, oblong-linear, glabrous. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals; filaments subulate, basally attached to petal; anthers almost sagittate. Disk absent. Ovary unilocular, bearing a fleshy lateral lobe; style eccentric; stigma truncate, very small; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit a drupe, with a large lateral appendage, and bearing remains of persistent style.
Range
A genus of about 15 species confined to tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Australia (Queensland).
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
APODYTES Arn. [family ICACINACEAE], in Hook., Journ. Bot. 3: 155 (1840); Sleumer in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 20B: 367 (1942)
Jobalboa Chiov. [family ], Racc. Bot. Miss. Consol. Kenya: 19 (1935)
Information
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, penninerved. Flowers in terminal or more rarely axillary panicles, hermaphrodite, regular. Sepals 5, united at the base to give small deltoid lobes, persistent in fruit. Petals 5, free, valvate, oblong-linear, glabrous. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals; filaments subulate, basally attached to petal; anthers almost sagittate. Disk absent. Ovary unilocular, bearing a fleshy lateral lobe; style eccentric; stigma truncate, very small; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit a drupe, with a large lateral appendage, and bearing remains of persistent style.
Range
A genus of about 15 species confined to tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Australia (Queensland).
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