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Marquesia Gilg [family DIPTEROCARPACEAE]
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 407, (1961) Author: P. Duvigneaud
Names
Marquesia Gilg [family DIPTEROCARPACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 40: 485 (1908).
Information
Tall trees with buttresses. Leaves evergreen, acuminate; midrib and lateral nerves slightly depressed above and prominent beneath; reticulation very dense, isodiametrical; indumentum composed only of simple isolated short pachydermatous hairs; minute spherical glands generally dispersed on nerves and reticulation. Flowers small, in large terminal panicles, with very hairy sepals and glabrescent petals; receptacle produced into a broad, elevated and conspicuous androgynophore. Stamens numerous; anthers short, not produced at the apex into a sterile appendage. Ovary hairy, 1-locular at the apex, with parietal placentation; ovules 6. Fruit ovoid-conical, with a parchment-like pericarp, surrounded by the 5 equal wings of the accrescent calyx.
Range
Genus endemic in tropical Africa, where it is represented by 3–4 species.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 407, (1961) Author: P. Duvigneaud
Names
Marquesia Gilg [family DIPTEROCARPACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 40: 485 (1908).
Information
Tall trees with buttresses. Leaves evergreen, acuminate; midrib and lateral nerves slightly depressed above and prominent beneath; reticulation very dense, isodiametrical; indumentum composed only of simple isolated short pachydermatous hairs; minute spherical glands generally dispersed on nerves and reticulation. Flowers small, in large terminal panicles, with very hairy sepals and glabrescent petals; receptacle produced into a broad, elevated and conspicuous androgynophore. Stamens numerous; anthers short, not produced at the apex into a sterile appendage. Ovary hairy, 1-locular at the apex, with parietal placentation; ovules 6. Fruit ovoid-conical, with a parchment-like pericarp, surrounded by the 5 equal wings of the accrescent calyx.
Range
Genus endemic in tropical Africa, where it is represented by 3–4 species.
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 407, (1961) Author: P. Duvigneaud
Names
Marquesia Gilg [family DIPTEROCARPACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 40: 485 (1908).
Information
Tall trees with buttresses. Leaves evergreen, acuminate; midrib and lateral nerves slightly depressed above and prominent beneath; reticulation very dense, isodiametrical; indumentum composed only of simple isolated short pachydermatous hairs; minute spherical glands generally dispersed on nerves and reticulation. Flowers small, in large terminal panicles, with very hairy sepals and glabrescent petals; receptacle produced into a broad, elevated and conspicuous androgynophore. Stamens numerous; anthers short, not produced at the apex into a sterile appendage. Ovary hairy, 1-locular at the apex, with parietal placentation; ovules 6. Fruit ovoid-conical, with a parchment-like pericarp, surrounded by the 5 equal wings of the accrescent calyx.
Range
Genus endemic in tropical Africa, where it is represented by 3–4 species.
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