WorldFloraDB - Neillia

Characteristics

Shrubs, 2.5–25[–40] dm. Stems 1–20+, arching, sometimes rooting at tips; bark red-brown [to greenish]; glabrous or slightly hairy [to densely yellow-brown pubescent when young]. Leaves deciduous, cauline; stipules persistent [deciduous], ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, margins remotely to strongly serrate; petiole present; blade ovate, 2–6[–12] cm, herbaceous, margins flat, incised or lobed, lobes [3–]7–11, poorly or well developed, singly or doubly serrate, venation palmate, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy (especially on main veins), adaxial glabrous or sparsely hairy. Inflorescences terminal, sometimes also axillary, 3–70+-flowered, racemes or panicles to corymbs; bracts present ?deciduous?; bracteoles absent; ?peduncles present?. Pedicels present. Flowers [3–]4–5[–10] mm diam.; hypanthium cup-shaped [obconic, campanulate], [2–]3–5[–12] mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy [glandular-pubescent, densely hairy]; sepals 5, ascending, triangular to oblong [elliptic]; petals 5, white [pink or reddish], obovate; stamens [5–]10[–30] in 1[–2] whorl(s), shorter than [approximately equal to] petals; carpels 1[–5]; ovules 2[–10]. Fruits follicles [aggregated], 1, obliquely subglobose [ellipsoid or cylindric], 2–3[–5] mm diam., dehiscent from base, ?enclosed in or protruding from hypanthium?, glabrous or sparsely to moderately pilose [glandular-pubescent, densely hairy]; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, ascending to erect. Seeds 1[–4]. x = 9.

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Shrubs, rarely subshrubs, deciduous. Branchlets spreading, slender, terete or angled; buds ovoid, scales imbricate, apex acute. Leaves often 2-ranked; stipules conspicuous, deciduous; leaf blade simple, margin doubly serrate and usually 3-parted or shallowly 3–5(–7)-lobed. Inflorescence a terminal or sometimes axillary raceme or panicle; bracts linear-lanceolate to ovate, small, caducous. Flowers bisexual. Hypanthium campanulate, urceolate-campanulate, or cylindric. Sepals 5, erect, persistent in fruit and becoming densely pubescent and stipitate glandular abaxially. Petals white or pink-red, subequaling sepals. Stamens 10–30, irregularly 2-whorled on rim of hypanthium, not exceeding petals. Carpels 1(–5); ovary with 2–10 ovules; style erect. Follicles enclosed by persistent hypanthium, dehiscent along adaxial suture. Seeds several, obovoid; testa lustrous; caruncle convex.

Unarmed shrubs, erect, scandent, or creeping. Leaves simple, lobed and dentate. Stipules free. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, 5-merous, bisexual. Hypanthium cam-panulate to tubular, often with stalked glands outside. Sepals imbricate, acuminate. Petals (sub)orbicular, white. Stamens 6-40. Pistil 1, rarely 2, free; ovary superior, included in hypanthium, 1-locular; style terminal, with peltate stigma; ovules 2-13, biseriately placed on the ventral placenta. Fruit a dry follicle, protruding from the enlarged hypanthium. Seeds several, with hard and shining testa; endosperm rather plentiful.

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