WorldFloraDB - Markhamia

Characteristics

Trees. Leaves opposite, 1-pinnately compound. Inflorescences terminal. Flowers yellow or yellow-red. Calyx closed in bud, laterally divided to base, spathelike at anthesis, floccose to lanate-woolly. Corolla lobes 5, subequal, rounded, tube short. Stamens 4, didynamous. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally, long, terete, compressed, yellow-brown floccose to lanate-woolly; septum woody, compressed, with 1 concave midrib. Seeds long ellipsoid, 2-rowed in each locule, transparent and membranous winged at both ends.

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Capsule long, flattened parallel to the false-septum, bivalved, valves splitting loculicidally.

Stamens didynamous, enclosed; anther-thecae connate above, divergent towards the base.

Calyx spathaceous, cuspidate or uncinate at the apex, shorter than the corolla tube.

Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed, bilabiate, funnel-shaped at the base.

Ovary oblong, bilocular; ovules numerous 4–6-seriate per locule.

Leaves opposite, imparipinnate; pseudostipules well developed.

Inflorescence a terminal or axilliary panicle or raceme.

Disk annular or cup-shaped.

seeds paper-winged.

A shrub or tree.

Shrubs or trees.

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Growth form	tree
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Foliage retention	deciduous
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It is a tropical plant.

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