e-Key v3 - Oricia
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Rutaceae - Oricia Pierre

Description :

  • Trees
  • Leaves alternate or opposite, 3-5-foliolate, usually large; leaflets narrowly ovate
  • Flowers unisexual, with occasional bisexual ones on flattened, tomentose pedicels in axillary and terminal racemes or panicles
  • Calyx shortly 4-lobed, saucer-shaped
  • Petals 4, ovate, obtuse
  • Male flowers : stamens 4, without apical gland; ovary rudimentary
  • Female flowers : stamens rudimentary; ovary of 2-4 carpels, variously free or cohering, with 2 pendulous ovules in each locule, hispid; style short, terete; stigma peltate
  • Fruit drupaceous, of 2-4 distinct carpels, 1-3 carpels aborted; seeds solitary in locules

Nomenclature:

  • Oricia Pierre
    • Pierre: 1288 (1897)
    • Mendonça: 195 (1963)
    • Verdoorn:411 (1926)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species 8, Africa
  • Southern Africa : Species 3, Northern Province and Mpumalanga to Eastern Cape

References:

  • MENDONÇA, F.A. 1963. 40. Rutaceae . Flora zambesiaca 2,1
  • PIERRE, J.B.L. 1897. Oricia . Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris 2
  • VERDOORN, I.C. 1926. Revision of the African Toddalieae . Kew Bulletin 1926