e-Key v3 - Pseudosalacia
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Celastraceae - Pseudosalacia Codd

Description :

  • Trees, glabrous, unarmed; bark greyish, smooth
  • Leaves alternate, ± elliptic, very large, coriaceous, entire, petiolate; stipules 0
  • Inflorescences short, 1-7-flowered cymes or fascicles
  • Flowers bisexual
  • Sepals 5, shortly united, imbricate, persistent, becoming reflexed
  • Petals (4)5(6), spreading, subrotund, subentire
  • Disc fleshy, obscure, 5-angled
  • Stamens 5, alternating with petals, subsessile, arising from small protuberances near margin of disc
  • Ovary 3-locular, almost completely immersed in disc, with 2 collateral, erect ovules per locule; style subobsolete
  • Fruit capsular, eventually dehiscent, large, globose; pericarp thick, leathery, minutely verrucose
  • Seeds 2-5, brown, glabrous, trigonous; endosperm present

Nomenclature:

  • Pseudosalacia Codd
    • Codd: 565 (1972)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Monotypic: Pseudosalacia streyi Codd, rare in coastal forest of S KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • CODD, L.E. 1972. Celastraceae . Bothalia 10