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Genus

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae

Characteristics

Trees, monoecious, aculeate. Leaves alternate in spirals; stipules fully amplexicaul, free; blade entire, pinnately veined. Inflorescences in the leaf axils, pedunculate, (subinvolucrate-)bracteate. Staminate inflorescences capitate; flowers distinct; tepals 4, connate; stamens 4; pistillode absent. Pistillate inflorescences capitate to subdiscoid; flowers 2-ca. 15; perianth tubular, 4-lobed; ovary free; stigmas 2, filiform. Fruiting perianth enlarged, yellow; fruit free; seed large, without endosperm, cotyledons thick and equal.
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Monoecious trees, the young branches usually more or less aculeate, rarely un-armed. Leaves alternate, distichous; stipules fully amplexicaul. Both staminate and pistillate inflorescences of globose or subglobose heads. Staminate flowers many: perianth of 4 scarcely united tepals; stamens 4, with broadly oval, basifixed anthers. Pistillate flowers few (3-9): perianths tubular-conic, shortly 4-dentate, strongly coherent in the head; ovary superior, the stigma deeply 2-lobed, widely exserted. Fruiting head a fleshy syncarp.
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Distribution

Poulsenia world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:304189-2
WFO ID wfo-4000031055
COL ID 6V97
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 730709
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Synonyms

Poulsenia

Lower taxons

Poulsenia armata
WorldFloraDB 2024