e-Key v3 - Vepris
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Rutaceae - Vepris Comm. ex A.Juss.

Description :

  • Trees or shrubs, dioecious
  • Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, digitately 1 or 3(2 or 4)-foliolate, gland-dotted; leaflets usually narrowly ovate, sometimes with crinkled margins
  • Flowers unisexual, in axillary or terminal cymes, panicles, or racemes
  • Calyx cup- or saucer-shaped, shortly (3)4-lobed
  • Petals (3)4, somewhat fleshy
  • Male flowers : stamens 8, without apical gland; ovary rudimentary, 2-4-angled and with 2-4 styles
  • Female flowers : staminodes 8, rudimentary; ovary 2-4-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule; style short; stigma peltate
  • Fruit 2-4-locular, 1-3 locules aborted; seeds solitary in locules

Nomenclature:

  • Vepris Comm. ex A.Juss.
    • Jussieu: 509 (1825)
    • Verdoorn: 394 (1926)
    • Mendonça: 199 (1963)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species ± 15, mostly Africa to Mascarene Islands and India
  • Southern Africa : Species 5, Northern Province, Mpumalanga and southeastern coastal region of Eastern Cape, 1 extending into Western Cape

References:

  • JUSSIEU, A.H.L. DE. 1825. Vepris . Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 12
  • MENDONÇA, F.A. 1963. 40. Rutaceae . Flora zambesiaca 2,1
  • VERDOORN, I.C. 1926. Revision of the African Toddalieae . Kew Bulletin 1926