e-Key v3 - Nuxia
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Buddlejaceae - Nuxia Comm. ex Lam.

Description :

  • Shrubs or trees with fibrous, stringy bark
  • Leaves ternate, sometimes opposite, rarely some leaves alternate, petiolate, glabrous, scaly or variously pubescent, sometimes glutinous; hairs simple, branched or gland-tipped, short or long, dense or sparse; margin entire or variously toothed or lobed, sometimes somewhat undulate
  • Cymes in terminal panicles or corymbosely congested, sometimes contracted into pseudoheads or umbels
  • Calyx tubular-campanulate; lobes erect; tube usually appressed-hairy within
  • Corolla with tube usually included in calyx, circumscissile near base and often bearded in throat; lobes usually reflexed over the erect calyx lobes
  • Stamens arising in or just below throat of corolla tube; anthers exserted, thecae confluent
  • Ovary 2-locular, narrowed into style; stigma terminal, usually exserted; ovules many in each locule
  • Capsule small, slightly longer than to twice as long as persistent calyx, septicidally 2-valved, valves splitting at apex; placenta free
  • Seeds many

Nomenclature:

  • Nuxia Comm. ex Lam.
    • Lamarck: 295 t. 71 (1791)
    • Verdoorn: 150 (1963)
    • Leeuwenberg: 349 (1983)
  • Lachnopylis Hochst.
    • Hochstetter: 77 (1843)
    • Phillips: 575 (1951)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global : Species ± 40, Africa, Madagascar and Mascarene Islands
  • Southern Africa : Species 5, widespread

References:

  • HOCHSTETTER, C.F.F. 1843. Nova genera plantarum Africae. Flora 26
  • LAMARCK, J.B.A.P.M. DE. 1791. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique (Illustration des genres) l
  • LEEUWENBERG, A.J.M. 1983. Loganiaceae . Flora zambesiaca 7,1
  • PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 25
  • VERDOORN, I.C. 1963. Loganiaceae . Flora of southern Africa 26