WorldFloraDB - Ptaeroxylon

Characteristics

Dioecious tree with paripinnate leaves; leaflets opposite or rarely alternate. Flowers in contracted thyrses. Sepals 4, free almost to the base; aestivation open. Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens 4. Ovary laterally compressed, 2-locular with 1 ovule in each locule; style slightly more than half as long as the ovary; stigmas 2, large, capitate, spreading. Capsule splitting into 2 persistent bilobed valves; central column breaking into a number of fibrous strands. Seed with long terminal wing.

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Ovary laterally compressed, 2-locular; loculi 1-ovulate; style slightly more than half as long as the ovary; stigmas 2, large, capitate, spreading.

Capsule splitting into 2 persistent bilobed valves; central column breaking up into a number of fibrous strands.

Sepals 4, free almost to the base, with open aestivation.

Flowers dioecious, in contracted thyrses.

Leaves opposite, paripinnate.

Petals 4, imbricate.

Stamens 4.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	tree
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Sexuality	dioecy
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Cultivation

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:36548-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000031857
COL ID	74HZ
BDTFX ID	-
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Synonyms

Ptaeroxylon

Lower taxons

Ptaeroxylon obliquum

WorldFloraDB 2024

Ptaeroxylon Eckl. & Zeyh.

Genus

Angiosperms > Sapindales > Rutaceae