Alangium Lam.

Genus

Angiosperms > Cornales > Cornaceae

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate, exstipulate; venation pinnate or (not in Australia) palmate; tertiary veins scalariform; domatia often present. Flowers in axillary cymes, bisexual, actinomorphic, often bracteate; pedicels articulate. Perianth 4–6-merous or (not in Australia) up to 10-merous. Sepals fused into a tube, the lobes tooth-like or obsolete. Petals linear, valvate, spreading, sometimes cohering at base. Stamens in Australia as many as and opposite petals, free or epipetalous; anthers basifixed, 2-locular, dehiscing longitudinally. Disc intrastaminal. Ovary inferior, 2-or 3-carpellate, usually 1-locular; ovule 1 per locule, pendulous; style filiform; stigmas 1–4. Fruit a drupe, crowned with persistent calyx and disc. Seeds 1 or 2, with endosperm; embryo straight.
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Morphological characters and geographic distribution are the same as those of the family.
Characters as for family.
Characters of the family.
Life form perennial
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Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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