e-Key v3 - Ekebergia
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Meliaceae - Ekebergia Sparrm.

Description :

  • Trees or shrubs, dioecious
  • Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets entire, opposite or subopposite; leaf rachis sometimes winged
  • Flowers unisexual; in axillary panicles
  • Calyx saucer-shaped, 4- or 5(6)-lobed
  • Petals 4-6, imbricate
  • Disc annular, free or united to ovary
  • Stamens 10, connate into cup or basin-shaped tube; anthers sessile on tube
  • Ovary sessile, 2-5(6)-locular, with 2 superposed ovules in each locule; style short and thick; stigma obscurely 4- or 5-lobed
  • Fruit a dry, globose drupe with 1-5 pyrenes
  • Seeds mostly 1 per locule, exarillate
  • x = 23

Nomenclature:

  • Ekebergia Sparrm.
    • Sparrman: 282 (1779)
    • Sonder: 247 (1860)
    • White & Styles: 315 (1963)
    • White & Styles: 51 (1986)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species 4, confined to Africa
  • Southern Africa : Species 2 or 3, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal, SE Western and Eastern Cape

References:

  • SONDER, O.W. 1860. Meliaceae . Flora capensis 1
  • SPARRMAN, A. 1779. Et nyett genus i våxtriket uptåckt och kalladt Ekebergia capensis . Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar 40
  • WHITE, F. & STYLES, B.T. 1963. Meliaceae . Flora zambesiaca 2
  • WHITE, F. & STYLES, B.T. 1986. Meliaceae . Flora of southern Africa 18, 3