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Lophira Gaertn. [family OCHNACEAE]

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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Lophira Gaertn. [family OCHNACEAE], in Gaertn. f., Fruct. 3: 52, t. 188, fig. 2 (1805); Bamps in B.J.B.B. 40: 291–294 (1970)
Information
Trees; branches with very obvious leaf-scars. Leaves tufted at tips of branches, simple, petiolate, entire; secondary veins numerous; stipules entire. Flowers in terminal panicles. Calyx lobes 5, imbricate in bud, persistent. Corolla contorted in bud; petals 5; stamens numerous in 3–5 whorls; anthers dehiscing by 2 apical pores. Ovary sessile, of 2 carpels, 1-locular with basal placentation, the ovules in 2 rows, erect, anatropous; style scarcely distinct from ovary; stigmas 2, divergent. Achenes subwoody, surrounded by calyx with outer sepals accrescent and wing-like. Seeds without endosperm.
Range
Genus of 2 species restricted to tropical 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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Lophira Gaertn. [family OCHNACEAE], in Gaertn. f., Fruct. 3: 52, t. 188, fig. 2 (1805); Bamps in B.J.B.B. 40: 291–294 (1970)
Information
Trees; branches with very obvious leaf-scars. Leaves tufted at tips of branches, simple, petiolate, entire; secondary veins numerous; stipules entire. Flowers in terminal panicles. Calyx lobes 5, imbricate in bud, persistent. Corolla contorted in bud; petals 5; stamens numerous in 3–5 whorls; anthers dehiscing by 2 apical pores. Ovary sessile, of 2 carpels, 1-locular with basal placentation, the ovules in 2 rows, erect, anatropous; style scarcely distinct from ovary; stigmas 2, divergent. Achenes subwoody, surrounded by calyx with outer sepals accrescent and wing-like. Seeds without endosperm.
Range
Genus of 2 species restricted to tropical 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, (2005) Author: B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
Lophira Gaertn. [family OCHNACEAE], in Gaertn. f., Fruct. 3: 52, t. 188, fig. 2 (1805); Bamps in B.J.B.B. 40: 291–294 (1970)
Information
Trees; branches with very obvious leaf-scars. Leaves tufted at tips of branches, simple, petiolate, entire; secondary veins numerous; stipules entire. Flowers in terminal panicles. Calyx lobes 5, imbricate in bud, persistent. Corolla contorted in bud; petals 5; stamens numerous in 3–5 whorls; anthers dehiscing by 2 apical pores. Ovary sessile, of 2 carpels, 1-locular with basal placentation, the ovules in 2 rows, erect, anatropous; style scarcely distinct from ovary; stigmas 2, divergent. Achenes subwoody, surrounded by calyx with outer sepals accrescent and wing-like. Seeds without endosperm.
Range
Genus of 2 species restricted to tropical Africa.
Lophira Gaertn. [family OCHNACEAE]
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