Eurya Thunb.

Eurya (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Ericales > Pentaphylacaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs, small trees, or rarely large trees, evergreen, dioecious. Current year branchlets terete or 2-or 4-ribbed; winter buds exposed. Leaves distichous; leaf blade margin usually serrulate. Flowers axillary or congested on leafless branchlets, solitary to several in a cluster, small, pedicellate. Bracteoles 2, close to sepals, alternate. Sepals 5, persistent, imbricate, unequal. Petals 5, white or yellowish, basally slightly connate. Male flowers: stamens 5-35, in 1 whorl; filaments linear, glabrous, free or adnate to base of petals; anthers ovate-oblong to oblong, basifixed, 2-loculed, sometimes locellate (constricted at several places along anther length), connective slightly exserted; pistillode conspicuous. Female flowers: stamens usually absent or sometimes present as staminodes; ovary superior, 2-5-loculed with 3-60 ovules per locule, placentation axile; style 2-5, distinct or variously connate. Fruit baccate, globose, ovoid, or ellipsoid, with 2-60 seeds per locule. Seeds black, globose, shiny, foveolate-pitted; endosperm fleshy; embryo recurved.
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Distribution

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

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30005365-2
WFO ID wfo-4000014274
COL ID 4GNN
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INPN ID 446043
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Synonyms

Ternstroemiopsis Eurya

Lower taxons

Eurya acromonodontus Eurya acuminata Eurya acuminatissima Eurya acuminoides Eurya arunachalensis Eurya asterica Eurya boninensis Eurya brassii Eurya brevistyla Eurya buxifolia Eurya calotricha Eurya castaneifolia Eurya cavinervis Eurya celebica Eurya ceylanica Eurya chinensis Eurya chuekiangensis Eurya ciliata Eurya coriacea Eurya crassilimba Eurya crenatifolia Eurya decurrens Eurya degeneri Eurya eymae Eurya fangii Eurya finisterrica Eurya fragilis Eurya glaberrima Eurya glandulosa Eurya gnaphalocarpa Eurya gracilipes Eurya greenmaniana Eurya greenwoodii Eurya groffi Eurya hupehensis Eurya idenburgiensis Eurya impressinervis Eurya inaequalis Eurya kuboriensis Eurya kueichouensis Eurya lanceiformis Eurya laotica Eurya leptophylla Eurya merrilliana Eurya metcalfiana Eurya montis-wilhelmii Eurya nitida Eurya obliquifolia Eurya oblonga Eurya obtusifolia Eurya osimensis Eurya oxysepala Eurya pahangensis Eurya pickeringii Eurya platyptera Eurya pluriflora Eurya polygama Eurya polyneura Eurya pyracanthifolia Eurya quinquelocularis Eurya reflexa Eurya richii Eurya rigida Eurya rubiginosa Eurya rugosa Eurya ryozoana Eurya sandwichensis Eurya wardii Eurya wuliangshanensis Eurya yaeyamensis Eurya yakushimensis Eurya yunnanensis Eurya zigzag Eurya phaeosticta Eurya acutisepala Eurya alata Eurya albiflora Eurya amplexicaulis Eurya amplexifolia Eurya bifidostyla Eurya dielsiana Eurya disticha Eurya distichophylla Eurya domaensis Eurya gungshanensis Eurya hainanensis Eurya handel-mazzettii Eurya hebbemensis Eurya hebeclados Eurya japonica Eurya kerigomnica Eurya loquaiana Eurya luchunensis Eurya lunglingensis Eurya macartneyi Eurya magniflora Eurya marlipoensis Eurya megatrichocarpa Eurya meizophylla Eurya muricata Eurya paratetragonoclada Eurya patentipila Eurya pentagyna Eurya pentastyla Eurya perryana Eurya perserrata Eurya persicifolia Eurya phyllopoda Eurya pittosporifolia Eurya prunifolia Eurya pseudocerasifera Eurya saxicola Eurya semiserrulata Eurya septata Eurya spiralis Eurya steenisii Eurya stenophylla Eurya strigillosa Eurya subintegra Eurya ternatana Eurya tetragonoclada Eurya tigang Eurya tonkinensis Eurya trichocarpa Eurya tsingpienensis Eurya turfosa Eurya urophylla Eurya velutina Eurya vestita Eurya vitiensis Eurya weissiae Eurya wenshanensis Eurya taitungensis Eurya crassilimba Eurya makuanica Eurya fosbergii Eurya henryi Eurya tsaii Eurya glaberrima Eurya obovata Eurya emarginata Eurya jintungensis Eurya glabra Eurya subcordata Eurya taronensis Eurya cuneata Eurya leptamba Eurya longisepala Eurya cerasifolia Eurya auriformis Eurya hellwigii Eurya ovatifolia Eurya pullenii Eurya rehderiana Eurya rengechiensis Eurya roemeri Eurya sakishimensis