WorldFloraDB - Aegiceras

Characteristics

Small trees or shrubs in maritime habitats. Leaves alternate to subopposite, petiolate; lamina coriaceous, obscurely glandular-punctate, margin entire. Inflorescence umbelliform usually on short shoots, or racemose (not in Australia). Flowers bisexual, 5-merous, ebracteate; calyx lobes imbricate, contorted, glandular-punctate; corolla fused at base, lobes imbricate, contorted, reflexed at maturity, hairs present in corolla tube; staminal filaments connate at the base and fused to the base of the corolla tube; anthers transversely septate, at maturity extending horizontally above corolla; ovary superior, slender, fusiform, placentation free central; ovules numerous, embedded in placenta; style terminal, glands at base; stigma punctiform. Fruit a dry indehiscent capsule, cylindrical, curved, style persistent. Seed 1, embedded in a resinous pulp, endosperm absent. Germination usually viviparous.

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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or subopposite. Inflorescences terminal or rarely axillary, umbellate. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous. Corolla campanulate, united into a tube; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, imbricate, overlapping to right in bud, recurved or reflexed at anthesis, not glandular. Basal part of filaments united into a tube as long as corolla tube, distal part free, exserted; anthers ovate, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, transversely septate. Ovary superior; ovules numerous, within a globose placenta. Style elongated; stigma apiculate. Fruit elongated, terete, curved, 1-seeded capsules; exocarp dry, crustaceous, dehiscing by a longitudinal fissure or separating into 2 fragments along back and front; endocarp somewhat fleshy; persistent calyx compactly enclosing fruit base. Seeds occupying whole cavity; embryo terete, curved.

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LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:27258-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000000746
COL ID	PHV
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Wikipedia (EN)	Link
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Synonyms

Aegiceras

Lower taxons

Aegiceras corniculatum Aegiceras floridum

WorldFloraDB 2024

Aegiceras Gaertn.

Genus

Angiosperms > Ericales > Primulaceae