e-Key v3 - Teclea
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Rutaceae - Teclea Delile

Description :

  • Trees or shrubs, dioecious
  • Leaves alternate, (1)3-foliolate, gland-dotted; petiole sometimes winged
  • Flowers unisexual in axillary and terminal panicles, racemes, cymes, or spikes
  • Calyx usually shortly 4- or 5-lobed, cup-shaped
  • Petals 4 or 5
  • Male flowers : stamens as many as petals, inserted at base of disc, anthers dorsifixed, cordate, without apical gland; ovary rudimentary
  • Female flowers : staminodes as many as petals; disc sometimes present; ovary sessile, globose, 1-locular, with 2 pendulous ovules; style short or cylindric; stigma peltate
  • Fruit drupaceous, 1-seeded
  • x = 9 (1 report, polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Teclea Delile
    • Delile: 90 (1843)
    • Verdoorn: 401 (1926)
    • Mendonça: 205 (1963)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species ± 22, Africa and Mascarene Islands
  • Southern Africa : Species 4, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and eastern coastal region

References:

  • DELILE, A.R. 1843. Teclea . Annales des sciences naturelles 2, Ser. 20
  • MENDONÇA, F.A. 1963. 40. Rutaceae . Flora zambesiaca 2,1
  • VERDOORN, I.C. 1926. Revision of the African Toddalieae . Kew Bulletin 1926