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Pseudolmedia Trécul

Pseudolmedia (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae

Characteristics

Trees, dioecious. Leaves alternate, distichous on the lateral branches; stipules fully amplexicaul, free; blade entire, pinnately veined. Inflorescences. on spurs in the leaf axils, discoid-capitate, involucrate, sessile. Staminate inflorescences usually 2-4 together, inner involucral bracts covering the stamens before anthesis; perianth absent; free stamens intermixed with concentrically arranged bracts; pistillode absent. Pistillate inflorescences usually 2 together, uniflorous; perianth tubular, 4-dentate; ovary adnate to the perianth; stigmas 2, filiform. Fruiting perianth enlarged, fleshy, reddish; fruit adnate to the perianth; seed large, without endosperm, cotyledons thick and equal.
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Dioecious trees. Leaves alternate, distichous; stipules fully amplexicaul. Staminate inflorescences in discoid involucrate heads of numerous extremely re-duced flowers represented by a solitary stamen with an oblongoid basifixed anther and an extremely vestigial perianth, intermingled with more prominent spatulate bracteoles. Pistillate flowers solitary with an involucre of several closely imbricated bracts, perigynous or epigynous; perianth tubular with 4 minute dentate lobes; stigma narrowly 2-lobed, widely exserted. Fruit a false drupe subtended by the persistent involucre.
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Distribution

Pseudolmedia world distribution map, present in Panama

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:40960-1
WFO ID wfo-4000031569
COL ID 63QPW
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INPN ID 730702
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Pseudolmedia

Lower taxons

Pseudolmedia glabrata Pseudolmedia laevigata Pseudolmedia macrophylla Pseudolmedia rigida Pseudolmedia murure Pseudolmedia hirtula Pseudolmedia manabiensis Pseudolmedia gentryi Pseudolmedia boliviana Pseudolmedia mollis Pseudolmedia laevis Pseudolmedia spuria
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