WorldFloraDB - Phylica

Characteristics

Shrubs (or small trees but not in East Africa), often in parts densely pubescent, often ericoid, with stiff erect branches and numerous stiff crowded leaves. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate (to nearly sessile but not in East Africa); blade-margins usually strongly revolute and entire or if toothed the toothing rolled out of sight. Stipules absent (present in a South African species). Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, in tight head-like clusters (contracted thyrses) or in more expanded sometimes raceme-like thyrses (but not in East Africa), the heads often with extremely pubescent bracts. Cup variously bell-shaped or cylindrical, either only slightly or much surpassing the ovary. Sepals 5. Petals 5 (or absent but not in East Africa), cucullate or merely concave. Stamens 5. Disk very variable, usually thickened around the top of the ovary where it is free from the cup. Ovary inferior at all stages, 3-celled, often top-shaped, less commonly cylindrical; style simple with 3 minute stigmatic lobes. Fruit a dryish schizocarpous capsule, tardily separating into the 3 mericarps each of which liberates its seed through a ventral cleft. Seed with a lobed structure embracing the base, this often called an “aril”.

Leaves alternate, simple, shortly petiolate; lamina with margins usually revolute; stipules absent (except in one species outside our area).

Ovary inferior, 3-locular; ovules 1 in each loculus; style simple; stigma minutely 3-lobed.

Sepals 5, erect or spreading, variously shaped, often with a prominent median vein within.

Seeds somewhat 3-sided; funicle dilated into a lobed aril embracing the base of the seed.

Disk usually distinct and lining the receptacle or fleshy almost filling the receptacle.

Inflorescence a spike, raceme or capitulum, or with flowers axillary and solitary.

Receptacle campanulate, urceolate, cylindric, obconic or terete, 5-angled.

Fruit a capsule, mostly crowned with the persistent calyx.

Stamens 5, inserted below the petals; anthers 1–2-thecous.

Petals 5 (or absent), small, cucullate, unguiculate.

Shrublets, shrubs or small trees.

Flowers bisexual.

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:33498-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000029371
COL ID	65W58
BDTFX ID	2432
INPN ID	81004
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Phylica Calophylica Soulangia Tylanthus

Lower taxons

Phylica lachneaeoides Phylica arborea Phylica polifolia Phylica oleifolia Phylica abietina Phylica acmaephylla Phylica aemula Phylica affinis Phylica agathosmoides Phylica barnardii Phylica bolusii Phylica brachycephala Phylica brevifolia Phylica burchellii Phylica buxifolia Phylica curvifolia Phylica cuspidata Phylica cylindrica Phylica debilis Phylica diffusa Phylica dioica Phylica diosmoides Phylica disticha Phylica dodii Phylica elimensis Phylica excelsa Phylica glabrata Phylica gracilis Phylica greyi Phylica guthriei Phylica harveyi Phylica hirta Phylica humilis Phylica imberbis Phylica incurvata Phylica insignis Phylica intrusa Phylica karroica Phylica keetii Phylica laevifolia Phylica laevigata Phylica laevis Phylica lanata Phylica longimontana Phylica lucens Phylica lucida Phylica mairei Phylica natalensis Phylica nervosa Phylica nigrita Phylica nigromontana Phylica nodosa Phylica obtusifolia Phylica odorata Phylica piquetbergensis Phylica plumigera Phylica rigida Phylica rigidifolia Phylica rogersii Phylica rubra Phylica schlechteri Phylica selaginoides Phylica sericea Phylica simii Phylica spicata Phylica staavioides Phylica stenantha Phylica stenopetala Phylica stokoei Phylica strigosa Phylica strigulosa Phylica subulifolia Phylica thodei Phylica trachyphylla Phylica tuberculata Phylica tubulosa Phylica tysonii Phylica variabilis Phylica velutina Phylica virgata Phylica vulgaris Phylica willdenowiana Phylica wittebergensis Phylica emirnensis Phylica alba Phylica alpina Phylica alticola Phylica altigena Phylica ambigua Phylica amoena Phylica ampliata Phylica anomala Phylica apiculata Phylica atrata Phylica axillaris Phylica villosa Phylica barbata Phylica calcarata Phylica callosa Phylica cephalantha Phylica chionocephala Phylica chionophila Phylica comosa Phylica comptonii Phylica confusa Phylica constricta Phylica costata Phylica cryptandroides Phylica floccosa Phylica floribunda Phylica fourcadei Phylica fruticosa Phylica galpinii Phylica gnidioides Phylica lasiantha Phylica lasiocarpa Phylica leipoldtii Phylica levynsiae Phylica linifolia Phylica litoralis Phylica marlothii Phylica maximiliani Phylica meyeri Phylica minutiflora Phylica montana Phylica mundii Phylica oleaefolia Phylica paniculata Phylica parviflora Phylica parvula Phylica pauciflora Phylica pearsonii Phylica pinea Phylica plumosa Phylica propinqua Phylica pubescens Phylica pulchella Phylica purpurea Phylica pustulata Phylica recurvifolia Phylica retorta Phylica retrorsa Phylica reversa Phylica salteri Phylica thunbergiana Phylica tortuosa Phylica bathiei Phylica tropica Phylica ericoides Phylica nitida

Phylica L.

Nerprun alaterne (fr), Alaterne (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rhamnaceae