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Galpinia N.E.Br.

Genus

Angiosperms > Myrtales > Lythraceae

Characteristics

Ovary subsessile, depressed cone-shaped, incompletely 2-locular; style subulate, a little shorter than the stamens, with a dot-like stigma; ovules many, erect or radiating on a basal placenta.
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Stamens 6, opposite to the petals, circinate in bud, inserted below the middle of the calyx-tube, exserted; anthers dorsifixed, curved.
Capsule ± exserted, thinly membranous, tipped by the style, dehiscing irregularly; seeds flat, winged all around.
Calyx-tube campanulate, the lobes triangular, valvate, alternating with plicate appendages in the sinuses.
Flowers 5–6-merous in terminal panicles with 4-gonous branches.
Leaves decussate, shortly petiolate.
Petals caducous, corrugated in bud.
Small tree.
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:25437-1
WFO ID wfo-4000015255
COL ID 4LYZ
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Synonyms

Galpinia

Lower taxons

Galpinia transvaalica
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