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Cayratia Juss.

Cayratia (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Vitales > Vitaceae

Characteristics

Climbing perennial herbs or ± woody climbers with leaf-opposed tendrils, sometimes dioecious. Leaves 3-foliolate or pedately 5–9-foliolate, stipulate; leaflets toothed. Cymes usually axillary, divaricately branched. Flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite, 4-merous; buds ovoid or depressed-globose, not constricted at the middle. Calyx entire or lobed. Petals cucullate at the apex, soon deciduous. Filaments short; short staminodes present in ♀ flowers. Disk annular, thin, undulate or 4-lobed. Ovary immersed in the disk; style simple, subulate; stigma capitate; ovary very reduced in ♂ flowers. Fruit 2–4-seeded, rather thinly fleshy. Seeds triangular in outline, ± cordate, with basal projection and ventrally with 2 depressed areas, dorsally convex with a raised median chalazal rib, smooth.
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Lianas, usually woody, hermaphroditic or polygamo-monoecious. Tendrils usually 2-or 3-furcate, rarely racemosely branched. Leaves 3-foliolate or pedately 5-foliolate. Compound dichasium or corymbose polychasium. Flowers 4-merous. Petals 4, spreading, falling off separately. Stamens 4. Disk well developed, 4-lobed or undulately lobed. Style short; stigma slightly or inconspicuously expanded. Berry globose or nearly so, 1-4-seeded. Seeds semiglobose; cross-section of endosperm semicircular or T-shaped.
Flowers 4-merous; bud depressed-globose, not constricted at the middle.
Leaves 3-foliolate or pedate, margins toothed; stipules present.
Inflorescence a divaricately-branched cyme, usually axillary.
Climbing perennial herbs; tendrils leaf-opposed.
Style simple, subulate; stigma capitate.
Petals cucullate at the apex, caducous.
Disk annular, thin, undulate.
Anthers on short filaments.
Fruit 2–4 seeded.
Calyx entire.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

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Images

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Distribution

Cayratia world distribution map, present in Australia, China, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331473-2
WFO ID wfo-4000007092
COL ID 3JTX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 672529
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Columella Pedastis Cayratia

Lower taxons

Cayratia lanceolata Cayratia acuminata Cayratia apoensis Cayratia ciliifera Cayratia novemfolia Cayratia pterita Cayratia roxburghii Cayratia anemonifolia Cayratia calcicola Cayratia cambodiana Cayratia cardiophylla Cayratia ceratophora Cayratia cordifolia Cayratia gracilis Cayratia emarginata Cayratia albifolia Cayratia cardiospermoidea Cayratia corniculata Cayratia cuneata Cayratia debilis Cayratia dichromocarpa Cayratia eurynema Cayratia hayatae Cayratia imerinensis Cayratia nervosa Cayratia oligocarpa Cayratia pedata Cayratia thalictrifolia Cayratia timoriensis Cayratia triternata Cayratia acuminata Cayratia simplicifolia Cayratia mollissima Cayratia pedata Cayratia apoensis Cayratia lineata Cayratia megacarpa Cayratia pterita Cayratia cheniana Cayratia acris Cayratia medoensis Cayratia mollissima Cayratia reticulata Cayratia schumanniana Cayratia setulosa Cayratia simplicifolia Cayratia sonneratii Cayratia clematidea Cayratia cumingiana Cayratia ibuensis Cayratia melananthera Cayratia menglaensis Cayratia lineata Cayratia longiflora Cayratia maritima Cayratia megacarpa Cayratia polydactyla Cayratia saponaria Cayratia delicatula Cayratia irosinensis Cayratia palauana Cayratia daliensis Cayratia fugongensis Cayratia palmata Cayratia pellita Cayratia ridleyi Cayratia seemanniana
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