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GLENNIEA Hook.f. [family SAPINDACEAE]

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, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
GLENNIEA Hook.f. [family SAPINDACEAE], G.P. 1: 404 (1862); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 858 (1932), as ‘ Gleniea ’; Leenh. In Blumea 22: 411–414 (1975) & in Fl. Males., ser. 1, 11: 540 (1994) Crossonephelis Baill. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Adansonia 11: 245 (1874); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 818 (1932); Leenh. in Blumea 21: 91–103 (1973) Melanodiscus Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in T. Durand., Ind. Gen. Phan.: 75 (1888) & in E.P. IV, 165: 816 (1932)
Information
Trees or shrubs or occasionally scandent, monoecious or dioecious. Leaves simple or pinnate; leaflets in 1–6 pairs. Inflorescences terminal and in upper leaf axils, thyrsoid or paniculate with few spreading branches. Flowers regular; sepals 4–5, ± free; petals 5 or lacking; disk entire, broad, lobed. Stamens 4–8. Ovary 2–3-lobed; ovules 1 per locule; style 2–3-lobed. Fruit of 1–3 mericarps. Seeds without arils.
Range
Eight species in Malesia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and tropical Africa; one is widespread in central and eastern Africa.

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, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
GLENNIEA Hook.f. [family SAPINDACEAE], G.P. 1: 404 (1862); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 858 (1932), as ‘ Gleniea ’; Leenh. In Blumea 22: 411–414 (1975) & in Fl. Males., ser. 1, 11: 540 (1994) Crossonephelis Baill. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Adansonia 11: 245 (1874); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 818 (1932); Leenh. in Blumea 21: 91–103 (1973) Melanodiscus Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in T. Durand., Ind. Gen. Phan.: 75 (1888) & in E.P. IV, 165: 816 (1932)
Information
Trees or shrubs or occasionally scandent, monoecious or dioecious. Leaves simple or pinnate; leaflets in 1–6 pairs. Inflorescences terminal and in upper leaf axils, thyrsoid or paniculate with few spreading branches. Flowers regular; sepals 4–5, ± free; petals 5 or lacking; disk entire, broad, lobed. Stamens 4–8. Ovary 2–3-lobed; ovules 1 per locule; style 2–3-lobed. Fruit of 1–3 mericarps. Seeds without arils.
Range
Eight species in Malesia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and tropical Africa; one is widespread in central and eastern Africa.

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, (1998) Author: DAVIES & B. VERDCOURT
Names
GLENNIEA Hook.f. [family SAPINDACEAE], G.P. 1: 404 (1862); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 858 (1932), as ‘ Gleniea ’; Leenh. In Blumea 22: 411–414 (1975) & in Fl. Males., ser. 1, 11: 540 (1994) Crossonephelis Baill. [family SAPINDACEAE], in Adansonia 11: 245 (1874); Radlk. in E.P. IV, 165: 818 (1932); Leenh. in Blumea 21: 91–103 (1973) Melanodiscus Radlk. [family SAPINDACEAE], in T. Durand., Ind. Gen. Phan.: 75 (1888) & in E.P. IV, 165: 816 (1932)
Information
Trees or shrubs or occasionally scandent, monoecious or dioecious. Leaves simple or pinnate; leaflets in 1–6 pairs. Inflorescences terminal and in upper leaf axils, thyrsoid or paniculate with few spreading branches. Flowers regular; sepals 4–5, ± free; petals 5 or lacking; disk entire, broad, lobed. Stamens 4–8. Ovary 2–3-lobed; ovules 1 per locule; style 2–3-lobed. Fruit of 1–3 mericarps. Seeds without arils.
Range
Eight species in Malesia, Sri Lanka, Madagascar and tropical Africa; one is widespread in central and eastern Africa.
GLENNIEA Hook.f. [family SAPINDACEAE]
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