Maytenus procumbens (L.F.) Loes.

Species

Angiosperms > Celastrales > Celastraceae > Maytenus

Characteristics

Scrambling shrub or tree, up to 6 m high. Branchlets angular, reddish or pinkish orange. Leaves alternate, leathery, glossy above, paler below; lamina oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, 10-60 x 13-40 mm, apex acute to obtuse or rounded, mucronate, base cuneate, margins glandular-toothed, strongly recurved; venation distinct; petioles 1-4 mm long. Inflorescences 2-10-flowered. Flowers greenish white, ± 4 mm in diam.; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Sepals orbicular, ± 1 mm long, margins laciniate. Petals broadly oblong, 1-3 mm long, margins uneven. Stamens ± 1 mm long. Ovary subglobose; style almost absent; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a 3-valved, obovoid-trigonous capsule, 4-5 mm long, bright yellow, smooth. Seeds completely enveloped by orange aril.
More
Leaves not fasciculate, petiolate; lamina pale green, concolorous, (1)3–6·6 × (1)1·3–3·1(4) cm., oblong or elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, acute to obtuse or rounded at the apex, with margin reflexed, indurated, bearing 3–5 spinulose glandular denticles on each side or subentire, cuneate-angustate at the base, coriaceous, with c. 6 lateral nerves prominent on both sides or obsolete; petiole (1·5)2–4 mm. long.
Low, scrambling shrub or small tree to 6 m. Leaves elliptic to obovate, leathery, margins revolute, coarsely toothed. Flowers in axillary, sessile fascicles, greenish. Capsules bright yellow to orange.
Shrub or small tree up to 6 m. high, sometimes bushy or scandent or drooping or ± procumbent (in S. Africa), unarmed, glabrous, without latex; branches lined when young, becoming terete.
Cymes fasciculate, sessile, in axil of foliage leaves; pedicels 3–10 mm. long, articulated c. 1/5–1/3 above the base; flowers c. 2–10 in each fascicle, 3–4 mm. in diam.
Capsule bright yellow to orange or orange-brown, 4–5 mm. long, obovoid or subglobose to 3-gonous or shallowly 3-lobed, with lobes rounded or keeled, smooth, dry.
Ovary 3-locular, subglobose, c. 1/3-immersed in the disk; style almost absent; stigma capitate or very shortly 3-lobed.
Stamens 5, with filaments c. 1 mm. long, slightly flattened, inserted within the outer margin of the disk.
Petals white, 1–2(3) mm. long, oblong to elliptic, sessile, with margin subentire, ± crisped.
Disk subentire, flat except for thin free upturned margin.
Seeds orange-brown, completely enclosed by an aril.
Sepals 5, unequal, 1–1·5 mm. long, ovate, rounded.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 6.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Maytenus procumbens unspecified picture

Distribution

Maytenus procumbens world distribution map, present in Mozambique and South Africa

Conservation status

Maytenus procumbens threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:162032-1
WFO ID wfo-0001292623
COL ID 3YJ3G
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Celastrus ilicinus Gymnosporia procumbens Cassine articulata Celastrus procumbens Maytenus procumbens