Glycosmis Corrêa

Glycosmis (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees, unarmed, with rust-colored villosulous indumentum (sometimes becoming bleached) on terminal and axillary buds and usually on young inflorescences. Leaves alternate [rarely opposite], odd-pinnate, 1-foliolate, or simple. Inflorescences terminal and/or axillary, paniculate, compoundly racemose, or reduced to 1 or a few flowers. Flowers bisexual, globose to ellipsoid in bud. Sepals 4 or 5, basally connate. Petals 4 or 5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 8 or 10, distinct, alternately ± unequal in length; filaments ± straight. Disk annular, pulvinate, columnar, conic, or bell-shaped. Gynoecium 2-5-loculed, syncarpous; radial walls of locules straight; ovules 1(or 2) per locule; style to nearly as long as ovary, persistent in fruit. Fruit a berry, with mucilaginous pulp or dry, without pulp vesicles; endocarp membranous. Seeds with membranous seed coat; endosperm lacking; embryo straight; cotyledons elliptic, plano-convex, neither convolute nor folded; hypocotyl partly included between cotyledons.
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Unarmed trees and shrubs with reddish hairy innovations. Leaves usually in spirals, pinnate to unifoliolate (rarely so in Australia); leaflets usually alternate, articulated at base. Inflorescences racemes or thyrses. Flowers bisexual, 4-or 5-merous. Sepals united basally, imbricate. Petals imbricate. Stamens 8 or 10, usually alternately unequal, attached around disc; filaments abruptly narrowed at apex; anthers generally with apical gland and sometimes 1 or more glands on connective. Disc annular, weakly lobed. Gynophore often present, stout. Ovary 2–5-locular, each locule with 1 or 2 pendulous ovules; style short with swollen head. Berry spherical to ellipsoid, dry or fleshy. Seeds 1 or 2 (3), spherical to planoconvex; cotyledons green, fleshy.
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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