WorldFloraDB - Adelia

Characteristics

Shrubs [trees], unarmed or branchlets sometimes stiff and thorn-tipped, dioecious [monoecious], hairs unbranched; latex absent. Leaves deciduous, fascicled on short shoots [alternate], simple; stipules present, deciduous; petiole present, glands absent; blade unlobed, margins entire [crenate], laminar glands absent; venation palmate at base and pinnate distally [pinnate]. Inflorescences unisexual [bisexual], axillary, fascicles [racemes] or flowers solitary; bracts subtending pistillate flowers minute, not enlarging in fruit; glands subtending each bract 0. Pedicels present. Staminate flowers: sepals [4–]5, not petaloid, 2[–5] mm, valvate, distinct; petals 0; nectary extrastaminal, annular [5 glands], adnate to calyx; stamens [6–-]14–17[–30], connate basally [distinct]; pistillode present [absent]. Pistillate flowers: sepals 5(–6)[–7], distinct; petals 0; nectary annular; pistil (2–)3(–4)–carpellate; styles (2–)3(–4), distinct [connate basally], deeply multifid. Fruits capsules. Seeds subglobose; caruncle absent.

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Trees or shrubs; dioecious; twigs often spinescent; indumentum of simple non-glandular trichomes. Leaves alternate, petiolate; stipules inconspicuous; blades pinnately veined, eglandular, entire. Inflorescences axillary, glomerulate; flowers apetalous. Staminate flowers pedicellate; calyx-lobes 4 or 5, valvate; disc annular, thickened and fleshy; stamens 8-17, monadelphous at least at base (often appearing free in bud), the filaments slender, longer than the anthers; pollen grains 3-4-colpate, tectate, colpi operculate; pistillode minute or obsolete. Pistillate flowers long-pedicellate; calyx-lobes mostly 5 or 6, reflexed at anthesis; disc as in d; ovary usually of 3 carpels, pubescent, the ovules 1 per locule, the styles free or united at the base, deeply lacerate. Fruits capsular, dehiscing to leave a persist-ent columella; seeds smooth, ecarunculate, the endosperm fleshy, the embryo with broad thin cotyledons and short radicle.

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327625-2
WFO ID	wfo-4000000569
COL ID	8VT9D
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INPN ID	627960
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Adelia

Lower taxons

Adelia brandegeei Adelia cinerea Adelia barbinervis Adelia membranifolia Adelia oaxacana Adelia panamensis Adelia ricinella Adelia obovata Adelia triloba Adelia vaseyi

WorldFloraDB 2024

Adelia L.

Wild lime (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae