WorldFloraDB - Erythrophysa alata

Characteristics

Branches rigid, with short, ashen, divaricated branchlets. Leaves an inch long; leaflets 3 lines long, 2 lines wide. Racemes corymbose, or panicled, abbreviate, leafy at base, the rachis 1-1 1/2 inches long. Pedicels glandular. Calyx lobes downy within. Claws of the petals 2 lines long, lamina 4-5 lines. Ripe fruit 1 1/2 inches long, 2 inches wide, obtusely emarginate at base, shortly stipitate, purplish, netted with veins.

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Dioecious, rigid, small tree, 3-4 m tall. Leaves with 4 pairs of opposite leaflets plus a terminal one, obovate, rachis conspicuously winged. Flowers in racemose corymbs, small, showy, red. Fruit inflated, 3-lobed, red.

Twigs unarmed, virgate, glabrous and glossy; petioles winged between the leaflets; leaves paripinnate, leaflets opposite, in 4-6 pairs, obovate, mucronulate, undulate, very entire; flowers and fruit unknown.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
Growth support	free-standing
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