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Rhamnaceae - Lasiodiscus Hook.f.

Description:

  • Shrubs or small trees
  • Leaves opposite or subopposite, shortly petiolate; stipules large, interpetiolar
  • Flowers in axillary, pedunculate cymes or fascicles
  • Sepals 5
  • Petals 5, cucullate
  • Stamens 5, inserted under margin of disc
  • Disc thick, with free margin
  • Ovary half-inferior, 3-locular; style 3-lobed
  • Fruit a capsule, 3-lobed, tardily loculicidally dehiscent

Nomenclature:

  • Lasiodiscus Hook.f.
    • Hooker: 381 (1862)
    • Drummond: 438 (1966)
    • Figueiredo: 497 (1995)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 12, Africa, Madagascar
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Lasiodiscus pervillei Baill. subsp. pervillei, KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • DRUMMOND, R.B. 1966. Rhamnaceae. Flora zambesiaca 2
  • FIGUEIREDO, E. 1995. A revision of Lasiodiscus (Rhamnaceae). Kew Bulletin 50
  • HOOKER, J.D. 1862. Rhamneae. In G. Bentham & J.D. Hooker, Genera plantarum. Reeve, London