Crossopetalum P.Browne

Crossopetalum (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees. Branchlets terete. Leaves persistent, opposite or whorled; stipules present; petiole present; blade margins spiny-toothed, crenate, or entire; venation pinnate. Inflorescences axillary, cymes. Flowers bisexual, radially symmetric; perianth and androecium hypogynous; hypanthium absent; sepals 4, distinct; petals 4, white, pale green, reddish, or purplish; nectary intrastaminal, annular, fleshy; stamens 4, free from and inserted under nectary; staminodes 0; pistil 4-carpellate; ovary superior, <immersed in and adnate to nectary>, 4-locular, placentation axile; style 1; stigmas 4; ovule 1 per locule. Fruits drupes, <red>, 1[–2]-locular by abortion, obovoid or subglobose, apex not beaked. Seeds 1[–2] per fruit, obovoid, not winged; aril absent.
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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, alternate, or rarely ternate. Inflores-cences dichasia, axillary. Flowers bisexual; calyx 4-lobed; petals 4; disc cup-shaped, slightly 4-lobed; stamens 4, inserted between the lobes of the disc; pistil semi-inferior by adhesion to the disc, ovary 4-loculed (or 2-loculed?), each 1-ovuled. Fruit a drupe; seed exarillate.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-12

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