Calycocarpum Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray

Calycocarpum (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Menispermaceae

Characteristics

Vines , twining or clambering. Stems often bluish green, apically tomentose grading to glabrate. Leaves not peltate. Leaf blade generally pentagonal, palmately 3-5-lobed, base cordate, margins of lobes entire or coarsely dentate, apex caudate-acuminate, not mucronate; surfaces sparsely bristly or glabrous. Inflorescences axillary, racemes or panicles; bracts absent. Flowers 3-ranked; sepals 6-9, elliptic to obovate, glabrous. Staminate flowers: petals absent; stamens 6-12; filaments distinct; anthers 2-locular; pistillodes absent. Pistillate flowers: petals absent or vestigial; staminodes 6-91, poorly developed; pistils 3; ovary ellipsoid to fusiform, glabrous; stigma multicleft. Drupes globose to ellipsoid, glabrous; endocarp smooth, cup-shaped with erose margins, glabrous. Species
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Sep 6; pet none; stamens 12; pistils 3, narrowed to the summit and there radially dilated into a lobed stigma; fr ellipsoid, flattened on one side; stone deeply excavated on one side, its margin somewhat incurved and erose; woody twiners. Monospecific.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Distribution

Calycocarpum world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26897-1
WFO ID wfo-4000006236
COL ID 3G4D
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Synonyms

Calycocarpum

Lower taxons

Calycocarpum lyonii