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Rutaceae - Toddaliopsis Engl.

Description:

  • Shrubs or small trees, dioecious
  • Leaves alternate, 3-foliolate; leaflets ± narrowly ovate-elliptic, densely pellucid-dotted
  • Flowers unisexual, in small, terminal and axillary panicles or racemes
  • Sepals 4, free almost to base
  • Petals 4
  • Male flowers: stamens 8; anthers cordate, without apical gland; ovary conspicuous but aborted
  • Female flowers: disc prominently lobed; staminodes 8; ovary slightly 4-lobed, with thick, verrucose walls, 4-locular with 2 ovules in each locule; stigma sessile, 4-lobed
  • Fruit woody, globose, warty, 1-3 carpels aborted; seeds solitary in locules

Nomenclature:

  • Toddaliopsis Engl.
    • Engler: 433 (1895)
    • Verdoorn: 400 (1926)
    • Mendonça: 205 (1963)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 2, Africa
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Toddaliopsis bremekampii I.Verd., Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland and N KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • ENGLER, H.G.A., 1895. Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas 2. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin
  • MENDONÇA, F.A. 1963. 40. Rutaceae. Flora zambesiaca 2,1
  • VERDOORN, I.C. 1926. Revision of the African Toddalieae. Kew Bulletin 1926

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