WorldFloraDB - Bruinsmia

Characteristics

Glabrate tree with flattened-angular branchlets through decurrent petioles. Leaves almost entire to coarsely crenate, brownescent. Flowers in (mostly foliate) terminal thyrses. Pedicel with 1 bracteole, articulated at the apex. Buds solid. Calyx truncate or 5-lobed, entire or sub-5-toothed. Corolla-lobes 5(-6), free, imbricate, dull greenish or white. Stamens 10(-12), 5 longer alternate, 5 shorter epipetalous, or 10 subequal, coherent mutually and with the base of the corolla-lobes. Ovary free for the greater part, imperfectly 3-5(-6)-locular. Style 5-angular, not grooved. Stigma capitate, sub-5-6-lobed. Ovules ∞. Fruit indehiscent, oblong to globular; style-base mostly persistent. Pericarps pulpy or drupaceous. Seeds 1-∞, small, prismatic-4-angular. Cf. STEEN. Bot. Jahrb. 86 1967 390 .

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Trees. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, serrate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymes compound; bracteole 1 per flower. Pedicel jointed. Flowers bisexual or polygamous-dioecious. Calyx broadly campanulate, adnate to base of ovary, truncate or slightly 5-toothed, enlarging in fruit. Corolla lobes 5, imbricate. Stamens 10(--12); filaments slightly coherent to each other and to petals. Ovary superior, broadly conical, 5-locular; ovules many, placentation axile. Style 5-angular; stigma capitate 5-or 6-lobed. Fruit pear-shaped, crowned by persistent style, indehiscent. Seeds many, pointed at both ends; seed coat foveolate-rugose; endosperm fleshy-horny; embryo central, straight.

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LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38895-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000005534
COL ID	3DFN
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Synonyms

Bruinsmia

Lower taxons

Bruinsmia polysperma Bruinsmia styracoides

WorldFloraDB 2024

Bruinsmia Boerl. & Koord.

Genus

Angiosperms > Ericales > Styracaceae