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[family SCYTOPETALACEAE]
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
[family SCYTOPETALACEAE]
Information
Trees; branchlets sometimes winged. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, in terminal panicles or axillary racemes or fasciculate on the old wood. Calyx cupular, entire or toothed. Petals 3–10, valvate, free or shortly connate. Stamens numerous, in several series on the margin of or on the disk, free or united towards the base; anthers 2-celled, opening by a pore or slit at the side or towards the top. Ovary superior, 3–6-celled; ovules 2 to several in each cell, axile. Fruit woody. Seeds with ruminate or uniform copious endosperm and linear embryo.
Range
A small family confined to tropical West Africa and the Congo region
Notes
Closely allied to Tiliaceae.
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
[family SCYTOPETALACEAE]
Information
Trees; branchlets sometimes winged. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, in terminal panicles or axillary racemes or fasciculate on the old wood. Calyx cupular, entire or toothed. Petals 3–10, valvate, free or shortly connate. Stamens numerous, in several series on the margin of or on the disk, free or united towards the base; anthers 2-celled, opening by a pore or slit at the side or towards the top. Ovary superior, 3–6-celled; ovules 2 to several in each cell, axile. Fruit woody. Seeds with ruminate or uniform copious endosperm and linear embryo.
Range
A small family confined to tropical West Africa and the Congo region
Notes
Closely allied to Tiliaceae.
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 1, Part 2,
Names
[family SCYTOPETALACEAE]
Information
Trees; branchlets sometimes winged. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, in terminal panicles or axillary racemes or fasciculate on the old wood. Calyx cupular, entire or toothed. Petals 3–10, valvate, free or shortly connate. Stamens numerous, in several series on the margin of or on the disk, free or united towards the base; anthers 2-celled, opening by a pore or slit at the side or towards the top. Ovary superior, 3–6-celled; ovules 2 to several in each cell, axile. Fruit woody. Seeds with ruminate or uniform copious endosperm and linear embryo.
Range
A small family confined to tropical West Africa and the Congo region
Notes
Closely allied to Tiliaceae.
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