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Flacourtiaceae - Flacourtia L'Hér.

Description:

  • Trees or shrubs, often spiny, usually dioecious
  • Leaves alternate, petiolate, mostly crenate
  • Flowers unisexual, rarely bisexual, in short axillary racemes or solitary
  • Calyx 4-7-partite or sepals free and imbricate
  • Petals 0
  • Male flowers: stamens many; filaments terete; anthers small, elliptic or somewhat quadrate, sometimes subdidymous
  • Female flowers: stamens 0 or few; ovary surrounded by annular or interrupted disc, usually 4-8-locular with 2 superposed ovules in each locule; styles 4-8, short, thick, ± radiating, persistent; stigma retuse or marginate
  • Fruit a berry, 5-16-locular
  • Seeds obovoid or subcompressed; testa bony, rough; embryo straight; cotyledons flat, ovate; endosperm present
  • x = 11 (9, 10) (polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

  • Flacourtia L'Hér.
    • L'Héritier de Brutelle: 59 (1786)
    • Wild: 285 (1960)
    • Killick: 82 (1976)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 15, SE Asia, Malaysia, Polynesia, Madagascar, tropical and southern Africa
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Flacourtia indica (Burm.f.) Merr., in Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, North-West, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

References:

  • KILLICK, D.J.B. 1976. Flacourtiaceae. Flora of southern Africa 22
  • L'HÉRITIER DE BRUTELLE, C.L. 1786. Stirpes novae aut minus cognitae 3. Pierres, Paris
  • WILD, H. 1960. Flacourtiaceae (including Samydaceae). Flora zambesiaca 1