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Morinda L. [family RUBIACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 1, (1989) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Morinda L. [family RUBIACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 176 (1753); Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 81 (1754).
Appunettia R. Good [family RUBIACEAE], in Journ. Bot., Lond. 64 Suppl. 2: 30 (1926).
Information
Trees, shrubs or less often lianes, with mostly glabrous, less often hairy or tomentose stems. Stipules leafy, undivided, free or forming a sheath with the petioles. Leaves opposite or rarely in whorls of 3, sometimes only 1 at flowering nodes. Flowers heterostylous (? always), hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual, in tight capitula, the flowers usually joined, at least by the bases of the calyces, the capitula sometimes bearing single large coloured bracts or occasionally many smaller bracts; capitula 1-several at the nodes, frequently arranged in umbels, pedunculate or rarely sessile. Calyx tube urceolate or hemispherical, the limb short, truncate or obscurely to distinctly toothed, persistent. Corolla ± coriaceous, funnel-shaped or salver-shaped; lobes (4)5(7), valvate; throat glabrous or pilose. Stamens (4)5(7), inserted in the throat; filaments short; anthers and style included or exserted. Disk swollen or annular. Ovary 2–4-locular, sometimes imperfectly so; style with 2 short to long linear branches; ovules solitary in the locules, attached to the septum below the middle or near the base, ascending, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit syncarpous (very rarely scarcely so), succulent, containing several pyrenes; pyrenes cartilaginous or bony, 1-seeded or joined into a 2–4-locular woody structure. Seeds obovoid or reniform, with a membranous testa and fleshy endosperm.
Range
A genus of about 80 species throughout the tropics; 3 species occur in the Flora Zambesiaca area, all very distinct.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 1, (1989) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Morinda L. [family RUBIACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 176 (1753); Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 81 (1754).
Appunettia R. Good [family RUBIACEAE], in Journ. Bot., Lond. 64 Suppl. 2: 30 (1926).
Information
Trees, shrubs or less often lianes, with mostly glabrous, less often hairy or tomentose stems. Stipules leafy, undivided, free or forming a sheath with the petioles. Leaves opposite or rarely in whorls of 3, sometimes only 1 at flowering nodes. Flowers heterostylous (? always), hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual, in tight capitula, the flowers usually joined, at least by the bases of the calyces, the capitula sometimes bearing single large coloured bracts or occasionally many smaller bracts; capitula 1-several at the nodes, frequently arranged in umbels, pedunculate or rarely sessile. Calyx tube urceolate or hemispherical, the limb short, truncate or obscurely to distinctly toothed, persistent. Corolla ± coriaceous, funnel-shaped or salver-shaped; lobes (4)5(7), valvate; throat glabrous or pilose. Stamens (4)5(7), inserted in the throat; filaments short; anthers and style included or exserted. Disk swollen or annular. Ovary 2–4-locular, sometimes imperfectly so; style with 2 short to long linear branches; ovules solitary in the locules, attached to the septum below the middle or near the base, ascending, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit syncarpous (very rarely scarcely so), succulent, containing several pyrenes; pyrenes cartilaginous or bony, 1-seeded or joined into a 2–4-locular woody structure. Seeds obovoid or reniform, with a membranous testa and fleshy endosperm.
Range
A genus of about 80 species throughout the tropics; 3 species occur in the Flora Zambesiaca area, all very distinct.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 5, Part 1, (1989) Author: B. Verdcourt
Names
Morinda L. [family RUBIACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 176 (1753); Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 81 (1754).
Appunettia R. Good [family RUBIACEAE], in Journ. Bot., Lond. 64 Suppl. 2: 30 (1926).
Information
Trees, shrubs or less often lianes, with mostly glabrous, less often hairy or tomentose stems. Stipules leafy, undivided, free or forming a sheath with the petioles. Leaves opposite or rarely in whorls of 3, sometimes only 1 at flowering nodes. Flowers heterostylous (? always), hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual, in tight capitula, the flowers usually joined, at least by the bases of the calyces, the capitula sometimes bearing single large coloured bracts or occasionally many smaller bracts; capitula 1-several at the nodes, frequently arranged in umbels, pedunculate or rarely sessile. Calyx tube urceolate or hemispherical, the limb short, truncate or obscurely to distinctly toothed, persistent. Corolla ± coriaceous, funnel-shaped or salver-shaped; lobes (4)5(7), valvate; throat glabrous or pilose. Stamens (4)5(7), inserted in the throat; filaments short; anthers and style included or exserted. Disk swollen or annular. Ovary 2–4-locular, sometimes imperfectly so; style with 2 short to long linear branches; ovules solitary in the locules, attached to the septum below the middle or near the base, ascending, anatropous or amphitropous. Fruit syncarpous (very rarely scarcely so), succulent, containing several pyrenes; pyrenes cartilaginous or bony, 1-seeded or joined into a 2–4-locular woody structure. Seeds obovoid or reniform, with a membranous testa and fleshy endosperm.
Range
A genus of about 80 species throughout the tropics; 3 species occur in the Flora Zambesiaca area, all very distinct.
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