Fontanesia Labill.

Fontanesia (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Oleaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs or sometimes small trees, deciduous. Branchlets 4-angled. Leaves opposite, simple, sessile or short petiolate, entire or minutely serrate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary panicles or racemes. Flowers small, pedicellate. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla deeply 4-lobed, united only at base. Stamens 2, inserted at base of corolla. Ovules 2 in each locule, pendulous. Style and forked stigma persistent. Fruit samara, flat, surrounded by wing. Seeds 1 in each locule; endosperm fleshy; radicle upward.
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Images

Fontanesia unspecified picture

Distribution

Fontanesia world distribution map, present in China, Italy, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Turks and Caicos Islands, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:28344-1
WFO ID wfo-4000014912
COL ID 8VXQ2
BDTFX ID 86443
INPN ID 606897
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Synonyms

Fontanesia

Lower taxons

Fontanesia phillyreoides Fontanesia fortunei