WorldFloraDB - Cipadessa

Characteristics

Small trees. Indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves imparipinnate. Inflorescences polygamous, axillary thyrses. Calyx 5-lobed in apical half. Petals 5 (or 6), free, valvate. Filaments alternatively long and short, connate near base, terminated by a pair of narrowly lanceolate to filiform or erose appendages; anthers 10, acute, inserted between the appendages, pubescent. Disk patelliform. Ovary 5-(or 6-)locular; locules with 1 (or 2) collateral ovules; style short, stout, columnar, swollen stylehead with 5 (or 6) stigmatic lobes. Fruit a globular drupe with 5 (or 6) pyrenes, each 1-(or 2-)seeded; endocarp bony. Seeds orange-segment-shaped, exarillate; testa thin, membraneous; embryo embedded in endosperm; cotyledons thin, flat, collateral; radicle superior, long exserted. Germination phanerocotylar, the eophylls opposite or subopposite, ternate to trifoliolate.

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Shrubs or trees. Branchlets covered with grayish white lenticels. Leaves in spirals or subopposite, odd-pinnate; leaflet blades with margin usually entire. Thyrses axillary, polygamous. Flowers small, spherical. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed in apical half. Petals 5, distinct, valvate. Stamens 10; filaments linear, base or basal part forming a cup-shaped tube, tip distinct and 2-lobed, inside usually covered with trichomes; anthers inserted between 2 lobes of filament tube apical margin. Disk short, adnate to base of filament tube. Ovary globose, 1-5-locular, with 2 collateral ovules per locule; style short; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupelike berry, ± fleshy, with 5 pyrenes, each pyrene with 1(or 2) seeds. Seeds with fleshy endosperm; embryo leaflike; radicle superior, exserted.

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LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26711-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000008355
COL ID	62LC8
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Synonyms

Cipadessa

Lower taxons

Cipadessa baccifera

WorldFloraDB 2024

Cipadessa Blume

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Meliaceae