Ganophyllum Blume

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae

Characteristics

Tall trees, possibly monoecious. Indumentum: only simple, solitary hairs on the inflorescence; glandular scales common on twigs, leaves, inflorescences, and the outside of the sepals; young parts sticky resinous. Twigs densely warty. Leaves paripinnate, 4-10-jugate; pseudostipules absent; neither petiole nor rachis winged. Leaflets alternate to rarely opposite, herbaceous to stiff-pergamentaceous; base slightly to strongly oblique; margin entire. Inflorescences axillary thyrses, flowers solitary or in small cymules on racemoid branches; bracts caducous. Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic. Sepals 4-6, nearly free to about halfway connate, valvate, all about equal, not petaloid, entire. Petals absent. Disc uninterrupted, consisting of short-hairy or glabrous lobes opposite the sepals. Stamens 5-7, alternating with the disc lobes, in male flowers far exserted, glabrous; anthers basally attached, laterally dehiscent. Pistil sessile, sparsely short-hairy; ovary 2-(or 3-)locular; style apical, about as long as the ovary; stigma indistinctly lobed; ovules 2 per locule, one above the other, pendulous. Fruit a sessile drupe, not winged, smooth, outside and inside glabrous, with 1 or 2 locules. Seeds 1 per locule, arillode absent. Seedling epigeal, leaves from the start paripinnate, first leaves with the petiole and rachis marginate.
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Trees. Branchlets, leaves and peduncles with fine, peltate, resinous scales, glabrous. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets alternate, entire, shortly petiolulate. Inflorescence axillary, usually panicle-like, branches raceme-like or with 3–5-flowered cymules; bracteate. Flowers unisexual, the males and females on different inflorescences. Calyx cupular, 5–7-toothed; lobes narrowly ovate, subvalvate. Petals absent. Disc regular, puberulent. Stamens 5–7, glabrous; filaments filiform. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 2-locular, each with 2 ovules; style short; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit drupaceous, 1-locular, 1-or 2-seeded; seed exarillate, testa thinly crustaceous; embryo pale green.
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Distribution

Ganophyllum world distribution map, present in Australia, India, Solomon Islands, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:5138-1
WFO ID wfo-4000015299
COL ID 4M69
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Synonyms

Ganophyllum

Lower taxons

Ganophyllum falcatum Ganophyllum giganteum