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Phytolacca L. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 1, page 163, (1988) Author: B. L. Stannard
Names
Phytolacca L. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Sp. Pl. 1: 441 (1753); in Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 200 (1754).
Information
Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes scrambling. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemes, spikes or panicles. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Sepals free, subequal, sometimes reflexed. Stamens 5-many, functional or rudimentary; filaments sometimes connate at base; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary of 4-many carpels, free or united, functional or rudimentary; styles equal in number to carpels, free or connate at base. Fruit of 4-many, free or connate carpels, fleshy, globose to subglobose. Seed reniform or discoid; testa black.
Range
A genus of about 20 species, mainly in warmer regions, especially America.
Notes
P. dioica L. is found as a cultivated plant in the Flora Zambesiaca area and can be distinguished from the two species below by its tree habit, greater number of stamens ((20) 24–30), broader, glabrous perianth segments and less divergent carpels in the fruit.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 1, page 163, (1988) Author: B. L. Stannard
Names
Phytolacca L. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Sp. Pl. 1: 441 (1753); in Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 200 (1754).
Information
Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes scrambling. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemes, spikes or panicles. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Sepals free, subequal, sometimes reflexed. Stamens 5-many, functional or rudimentary; filaments sometimes connate at base; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary of 4-many carpels, free or united, functional or rudimentary; styles equal in number to carpels, free or connate at base. Fruit of 4-many, free or connate carpels, fleshy, globose to subglobose. Seed reniform or discoid; testa black.
Range
A genus of about 20 species, mainly in warmer regions, especially America.
Notes
P. dioica L. is found as a cultivated plant in the Flora Zambesiaca area and can be distinguished from the two species below by its tree habit, greater number of stamens ((20) 24–30), broader, glabrous perianth segments and less divergent carpels in the fruit.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 1, page 163, (1988) Author: B. L. Stannard
Names
Phytolacca L. [family PHYTOLACCACEAE], Sp. Pl. 1: 441 (1753); in Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 200 (1754).
Information
Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes scrambling. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, racemes, spikes or panicles. Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Sepals free, subequal, sometimes reflexed. Stamens 5-many, functional or rudimentary; filaments sometimes connate at base; anthers dorsifixed. Ovary of 4-many carpels, free or united, functional or rudimentary; styles equal in number to carpels, free or connate at base. Fruit of 4-many, free or connate carpels, fleshy, globose to subglobose. Seed reniform or discoid; testa black.
Range
A genus of about 20 species, mainly in warmer regions, especially America.
Notes
P. dioica L. is found as a cultivated plant in the Flora Zambesiaca area and can be distinguished from the two species below by its tree habit, greater number of stamens ((20) 24–30), broader, glabrous perianth segments and less divergent carpels in the fruit.
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