Dischidia R.Br.

Genus

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae

Characteristics

Epiphytic, succulent herbs or vines; latex white. Roots nodal and adventitious or nodal only. Leaves petiolate; lamina herbaceous, coriaceous or succulent, sometimes partially hollow and pitcher-like in cross-section and occupied by ants, entire, glabrous or with scattered hairs; colleters present. Inflorescence racemiform. Corolla narrowly to broadly urceolate, fleshy; tube cylindrical to urceolate; lobes free at tips, valvate. Annular corona present or absent; corolline corona absent or if present then of 5 lobes on inner surface alternate with corolla lobes; gynostegial corona staminal and composed of 5, erect, stalked, hyaline lobes with 2 incurved or reflexed apices. Stamens connate into gynostegium, not markedly capitate. Anthers 2-locular, with terminal appendage; pollen in linear tetrads; pollinaria with 2, erect, oblong pollinia lacking pellucid germinating mouth; corpusculum ovate to oblong; caudicles winged, not geniculate. Style-head conical. Follicles fusiform. Seeds flattened, ovate, comose at micropylar end.
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Herbs epiphytic or epilithic. Stems and branches fleshy, usually climbing by adventitious roots, sometimes also twining, or hanging. Leaves opposite or partly in whorls of 3 or 4, fleshy [sometimes leafless]. Inflorescences extra-axillary, small; rachis thick, often branched, eventually elongated, producing a series of often umbel-like groups of flowers. Flowers mostly very small. Calyx with 5 basal glands. Corolla white, red, or violet, ovoid to urceolate, with a narrow mouth, fleshy; lobes valvate in bud, short, often hairy. Corona lobes 5, slender, inserted on gynostegium, erect or ascending, apex entire, notched, 2-cleft, or with recurved arms. Anthers erect, with apical membrane overlying stigma head; pollinia 2 per pollinarium, margin translucent, caudicles enlarged at apex, erect. Follicles lanceolate or cylindric.
Life form perennial
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

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Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:3332-1
WFO ID wfo-4000012122
COL ID 46MR
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 445434
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Synonyms

Dischidia Conchophyllum

Lower taxons

Dischidia aberrans Dischidia acuminata Dischidia alternans Dischidia amphorantha Dischidia angustifolia Dischidia antennifera Dischidia asperifolia Dischidia atropurpurea Dischidia bengalensis Dischidia chinensis Dischidia cominsii Dischidia gibbifera Dischidia hahliana Dischidia hirsuta Dischidia hollrungii Dischidia hoyella Dischidia imbricata Dischidia immortalis Dischidia indragirensis Dischidia insularis Dischidia longe-pedunculata Dischidia major Dischidia maxima Dischidia melanesica Dischidia meleagridiflora Dischidia merrillii Dischidia micholitzii Dischidia parvifolia Dischidia purpurea Dischidia quinquangularis Dischidia reniformis Dischidia retusa Dischidia rosea Dischidia spironema Dischidia squamulosa Dischidia striata Dischidia superba Dischidia vadosa Dischidia bisetulosa Dischidia calva Dischidia cleistantha Dischidia clemensiae Dischidia cornuta Dischidia crassifolia Dischidia crassula Dischidia cyclophylla Dischidia digitiformis Dischidia dohtii Dischidia elmei Dischidia ericiflora Dischidia formosana Dischidia fruticulosa Dischidia galactantha Dischidia lanceolata Dischidia lancifolia Dischidia lauterbachii Dischidia listerophora Dischidia litoralis Dischidia longiflora Dischidia longifolia Dischidia micrantha Dischidia neurophylla Dischidia nicobarica Dischidia nummularia Dischidia obovata Dischidia ovata Dischidia oxyphylla Dischidia platyphylla Dischidia polilloensis Dischidia polyphylla Dischidia puberula Dischidia pubescens Dischidia tricholoba Dischidia roseo-flavida Dischidia rumphii Dischidia ruscifolia Dischidia saccata Dischidia scortechinii Dischidia singaporensis Dischidia singularis Dischidia tjidadapensis Dischidia tomentella Dischidia torricellensis Dischidia trichostemma Dischidia bulacanensis Dischidia tonsuensis Dischidia deschampsii Dischidia khasiana Dischidia rimicola Dischidia soronensis Dischidia latifolia Dischidia peltata Dischidia picta Dischidia punctata Dischidia sagittata Dischidia truncata Dischidia acutifolia Dischidia albiflora Dischidia cochleata Dischidia subulata Dischidia tonkinensis Dischidia albida Dischidia complex Dischidia dolichantha Dischidia griffithii Dischidia oiantha Dischidia rhodantha Dischidia vidalii Dischidia boholensis Dischidia astephana Dischidia milnei Dischidia australis Dischidia cylindrica Dischidia dasyphylla Dischidia sarasinorum