Garuga Roxb.

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Burseraceae

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs deciduous. Branchlet pith without vascular strands, pubescent. Leaves odd-pinnate, alternate, usually stipulate, crowded toward ends of branches; leaflets opposite, subsessile or with petiolule, serrate; stipels usually present. Flowers bisexual, in much-branched panicles, present before leaves, usually crowded toward end of branches, 5-merous; receptacle concave, globose or cupular. Sepals nearly free, deltoid, valvate. Petals inserted at edge of disk, valvate, apex incurved in bud, later recurved. Disk 10-grooved. Stamens 10, inserted in grooves at margin of disk; filaments subulate, base hairy; anthers oblong. Ovary subsessile or sessile, 4-or 5-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; style short; stigma capitate, shallowly 4-or 5-lobed. Drupe subglobose; pyrenes 1-5, small, bony, grooved. Seeds with membranous testa; cotyledons folded.
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Deciduous shrubs or trees. Branchlets without vascular strands in the pith. Leaves mostly stipulate and often with transitions from stipules to normal leaflets; margin of the leaflets crenate-serrate; stipellae often present. Inflorescences axillary, crowded at the ends of the branchlets, appearing before the leaves. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous, with a concave, globose or cupular receptacle. Sepals free. Stamens 10, free, inserted at the margin of the receptacle. Disk adnate to the receptacle, glabrous, with 10 lobes between the stamens. Ovary shortly stalked, 5-celled. Fruits drupaceous, pericarp fleshy. Pyrenes 1-5, small, furrowed, bony. Cotyledons contortuplicate, compound.
Trees or shrubs, deciduous. Leaves compound, stipulate; leaflets often with stipellae. Panicles axillary near ends of branchlets, appearing before the leaves. Flowers bisexual, 5-partite, perigynous, with hypanthium. Sepals free. Stamens 10, free, with a disc lobe between each filament. Ovary on short gynophore; carpels 5, fused. Drupe of 1–5 pyrenes.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

Garuga unspecified picture

Distribution

Garuga world distribution map, present in Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Samoa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30242877-2
WFO ID wfo-4000015344
COL ID 634SC
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INPN ID 672614
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Garuga

Lower taxons

Garuga floribunda Garuga forrestii Garuga pierrei Garuga pinnata