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Lecaniodiscus Planch. ex Benth.

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Sapindaceae

Characteristics

Small or medium-sized dioecious trees. Leaves pinnate; leaflets entire. Inflorescences short or long axillary racemoid thyrses. Flowers regular; sepals 3–5, concave, free or partly joined; petals absent (or 5 in West Africa); disk lobed. Stamens 8–12; filaments glabrous, folded in bud. Ovary unlobed, 3-locular; stigma subcapitate, subsessile, with 3 lobes. Fruit a slightly asymmetrically ellipsoid capsule, dehiscing by an irregular split, or indehiscent. Seed usually single by abortion of 2 ovules, enclosed in an aril.
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Fruit 1-locular (by abortion), indehiscent or tardily and irregularly splitting from the base.
Ovary 3-locular; loculi 1-ovulate; style short; stigma 3-lobed.
Inflorescence an axillary racemoid or paniculate thyrse.
Leaves paripinnate, petiolate; leaflets 3–7-jugate.
Flowers dioecious, spuriously polygamous.
Seed completely surrounded by anarillode.
Sepals 5, free nearly to the base.
Trees or shrubs.
Stamens 8–13.
Disk lobed.
Petals 0.
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36462-1
WFO ID wfo-4000020822
COL ID 5BN8
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Synonyms

Chiarinia Lecaniodiscus

Lower taxons

Lecaniodiscus punctatus Lecaniodiscus fraxinifolia Lecaniodiscus cupanioides
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