Pseudobersama Verdc.

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Meliaceae

Characteristics

Trees. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate; leaflets entire. Flowers unisexual (plant dioecious) in compound cymes. Calyx cupuliform with 5 teeth. Petals 5, free, imbricate. Stamens 11–12; filaments connate at the base from 1/3 – 2/3 of their length; anthers puberulous. Disk annular, partly fused to the base of the ovary or pistillode. Pistillode conical at base, cylindric, distally hirsute, with 3 locules, sometimes with vestigial ovules. Staminodes 12, filaments connate; antherodes hirsute, indehiscent, not producing pollen. Ovary ovoid-globose, densely hirsute, narrowed into the short style; style-head scarcely broader than the style, obscurely 4–5-lobed; locules 5, each with 2 ovules. Fruit a loculicidal capsule with 4–5 thick woody valves bearing branched antler-like appendages outside. Seeds very small in relation to the size of the capsule, partly covered by a bright red aril.
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Ovary with (4) 5 loculi, ovoid-globose, densely hirsute, narrowed into the short style; stigma capitate, slightly 4–5-lobed; loculi 5, each with 2 ovules.
Flowers unisexual, apparently dioecious but with well-developed vestiges of the opposite sex, borne in compound cymes.
Stamens 11–12; filaments connate at the base from 1/3–2/3 of their length; anthers puberulous, dorsifixed.
Fruit a loculicidal capsule with 4–5 thick woody valves bearing branched antler-like appendages outside.
Pistillode conical at base, cylindric, distally hirsute, with 3 loculi, sometimes with vestigial ovules.
Staminodes 12, filaments connate; antherodes hirsute, indehiscent, not producing pollen.
Disk annular, crenulate, fused to the base of the ovary or pistillode.
Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, leaflets entire.
Calyx cupuliform with 5 teeth, aestivation open.
Seed partly covered by a bright red aril.
Petals 5, free, imbricate.
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LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:26818-1
WFO ID wfo-4000031406
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Synonyms

Pseudobersama

Lower taxons

Pseudobersama mossambicensis