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Leptaulus Benth.

Genus

Angiosperms > Aquifoliales > Cardiopteridaceae

Characteristics

Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, coriaceous, penninerved; secondary veins arcuate, anastomosing Inflorescence axillary or subaxillary or leaf-opposed. Flowers solitary or in subumbellate cymes, shortly pedicellate, hermaphrodite, regular. Sepals 5, united at base, slightly imbricate. Petals 5, united almost to their apex to form a narrow tube; free portions valvate and reflexed. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals; filaments adnate to the petal for most of their length; anthers oblong-ovate. Disk absent. Ovary unilocular; style filiform, slightly eccentric; stigma small; ovules 2, pendulous. Fruit a drupe, oblong-ellipsoid; endocarp woody; seed large.
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Stamens 5, alternating with the petals and adnate to them for most of their length.
Petals 5, united nearly to the apex, valvate with inflexed tips.
Ovary with a somewhat excentric style; stigma funnel-shaped.
Flowers bisexual, in subumbellate cymes or solitary.
Calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes slightly imbricate.
Leaves alternate, entire, rather coriaceous.
Fruit an oblong-ellipsoid drupe.
Shrubs or small trees.
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LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:28217-1
WFO ID wfo-4000021204
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Synonyms

Leptaulus

Lower taxons

Leptaulus congolanus Leptaulus grandifolius Leptaulus holstii Leptaulus madagascariensis Leptaulus citrioides Leptaulus daphnoides
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