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4646.000 Pleurostylia
Description of the genus
Glabrous, unarmed, trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence a pedunculate dichasial cyme, single or paired in a leaf axil. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual,. Sepals (4-)5, united at base. Petals (4-)5, greenish. Disk intrastaminal, (4-)5-lobed. Ovary superior, 2-locular, with only 1 fertile loculus. Stigma peltate, unlobed. Fruit indehiscent, a small nut, with a persistent lateral style. Seeds 1(-2), without an aril. Worldwide: c. 3-4 species in tropical and S Africa, southern Asia, northern Australia and New Caledonia. |
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Other sources of information about Pleurostylia:
Flora of Mozambique: PleurostyliaePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Pleurostylia
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Pleurostylia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Pleurostylia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pleurostylia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Pleurostylia
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