e-Key v3 - Clausena
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Rutaceae - Clausena Burm.f.

Description :

  • Trees or shrubs
  • Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, densely gland-dotted
  • Flowers in axillary, cymose panicles
  • Sepals 4 or 5, small, united at base
  • Petals 4 or 5, imbricate, membranous
  • Stamens 8 or 10, inserted at base of disc; anthers elliptic, dorsifixed, introrse, without apical gland
  • Ovary (2 or 3)4- or 5-locular, with 2 ovules in each locule; style short, caducous; stigma broad, obtuse, or 2-5-lobed
  • Fruit baccate, 1- or 2-seeded
  • x = 9 (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Clausena Burm.f.
    • Burman: 243 (1768)
    • Mendonça: 191 (1963)
    • Molina: 105 (1994)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species ± 50, Africa to Malaysian region
  • Southern Africa : Species 1: Clausena anisata (Willd.) Hook.f. & Benth., Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Western and Eastern Cape

References:

  • BURMAN, N.L. 1768. Flora indica . Cornelius Haak, Leiden
  • MENDONÇA, F.A. 1963. 40. Rutaceae . Flora zambesiaca 2,1
  • MOLINA, J.-F. 1994. Revision du genre Clausena Burm. f. ( Rutaceae ). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 16