Nyssa Gronov. ex L.

Tupelo (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Cornales > Nyssaceae

Characteristics

Dioecious trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, scattered. Stipules 0. Flowers unisexual, often in heads, in the axils of a bract and with 2 bracteoles. ♂: in axillary heads or short racemes; calyx entire or 5-toothed; petals 5, imbricate, often small, alternate with the calyx; stamens 8-16 in 2 alternating whorls; anthers small, dorsifixed with lateral lengthwise slits; disk pulvinate; style rudimentary. ♀: solitary, axillary or in 2-10-flowered heads; ovary inferior, 1-locular, connate with the 5-toothed or entire calyx; petals 5-8 often minute; stamens of inner whorl partly sterile, both petals and anthers soon dropping; style with 2 appressed later divergent often torulose branches stigmatose on their inside, brittle, often deficient in the herbarium. Ovule 1, hanging from the apex of the cell, anatropous with 2 integuments. Fruit drupaceous ovoid to oblong.
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The American spp. mostly in swamp forests, the Asiatic one not so.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-11

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Germination duration (days) 90 - 365
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Images

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Distribution

Nyssa world distribution map, present in Åland Islands, Benin, Bangladesh, China, Costa Rica, Micronesia (Federated States of), Georgia, India, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Panama, Thailand, United States of America, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:12094-1
WFO ID wfo-4000026430
COL ID 8VZSN
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Synonyms

Nyssa Tupelo

Lower taxons

Nyssa aquatica Nyssa bifida Nyssa biflora Nyssa javanica Nyssa ogeche Nyssa sinensis Nyssa ursina Nyssa talamancana Nyssa sylvatica