e-Key v3 - Pseudoscolopia
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Flacourtiaceae - Pseudoscolopia Gilg

Description :

  • Shrubs or small trees
  • Leaves opposite, petiolate; blade elliptic, serrate; stipules 0
  • Inflorescence a lax, axillary cyme
  • Flowers bisexual
  • Sepals 4, valvate in bud, persistent
  • Petals 4, subsimilar to sepals, imbricate in bud, persistent
  • Stamens many; filaments free; anthers arcuate
  • Ovary superior, ovoid-globose, 1-locular with 2 or 3 parietal placentas and 1 ovule on each placenta, pubescent; style terete, 2- or 3-fid at apex
  • Fruit a 2- or 3-valved capsule, ovoid, with persistent style
  • Seeds ellipsoid, covered with stellate hairs; embryo straight; cotyledons flat, somewhat obovate; endosperm sparse

Nomenclature:

  • Pseudoscolopia Gilg
    • Gilg: 343 (1917)
    • Killick: 70 (1976)
  • Pseudoscolopia E.Phillips
    • Phillips: 416 (1926) name illegitimate

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Monotypic: Pseudoscolopia polyantha Gilg, confined to southern Africa, N KwaZulu-Natal to Eastern Cape border and isolated in kloof in Piketberg District of Western Cape

References:

  • GILG, E.F. 1917. Pseudoscolopia Gilg, nov. genus Flacourtiacearum . Botanische Jahrbücher 54
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1926. Pseudoscolopia . The genera of South African flowering plants . Government Printer, Pretoria
  • KILLICK, D.J.B. 1976. Flacourtiaceae . Flora of southern Africa 22