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Flacourtiaceae - Aphloia (DC.) Benn.

Description:

  • Trees or shrubs.
  • Leaves alternate, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, serrated or sometimes incised, petiolate; stipules minute, caducous.
  • Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary, in few-flowered fascicles or racemes.
  • Calyx 4-6-parted; sepals somewhat leathery, orbicular, concave, imbricate
  • Petals 0
  • Disc flat
  • Stamens many, arising outside or towards margin of disc; filaments free, terete, longer than sepals; anthers short, without appendages
  • Ovary superior, 1-locular, with few to several ovules on a single, parietal placenta; style short, stigma peltate
  • Fruit a fleshy berry with ± 6 seeds
  • Seeds obovoid or globose; testa incurved, crustaceous; endosperm thin; embryo incurved; cotyledons ovate
  • x = 10

Nomenclature:

  • Aphloia (DC.) Benn.
    • Bennett: 192 (1840)
    • Wild: 279 (1960)
    • Killick: 80 (1976)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species ± 6, Tanzania to KwaZulu-Natal also Madagascar and Mascarenes
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Aphloia theiformis (Vahl) Benn., Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • BENNETT, J.J. 1840. In J.J. Bennett & R. Brown, Plantae javanicae rariores 2. W.H. Allen, London
  • KILLICK, D.J.B. 1976. Flacourtiaceae. Flora of southern Africa 22
  • WILD, H. 1960. Flacourtiaceae (including Samydaceae). Flora zambesiaca 1

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