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Pterygota Schott & Endl.

Genus

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae

Characteristics

Trees. Leaves cordate, usually entire, but lobed when very young. Inflorescence axillary, racemose or paniculate. Flowers unisexual. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed to base, lobes reflexed at apex. Petals absent. Male flowers: androgynophore cylindrical, enclosed by calyx, apex cup-shaped. Filaments clustered into 5 groups, staminodes usually present; anthers sessile. Female flowers: androgynophore very short, with 5 undeveloped staminodes. Carpels almost free; ovules many per carpel; stigma swollen, radiate. Follicle woody, subglobose, with long stipe and many seeds. Seeds with long and wide apical wing.
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Female flowers with a perianth as in the male; ovary of 5 sessile or shortly stipitate coherent carpels; styles connate, stigmas 5, recurved; ovules ?.
Male flowers: androphore with an apical ring of anthers in one or more rows.
Trees with entire or palmatilobed, petiolate leaves.
Seeds many, with a large wing; endosperm present.
Flowers unisexual, in axillary panicles.
Fruit of 1–5 large woody follicles.
Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed.
Petals absent.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Images

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Distribution

Pterygota world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:38805-1
WFO ID wfo-4000032068
COL ID 74YK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 806987
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Synonyms

Basiloxylon Tetradia Pterygota

Lower taxons

Pterygota forbesii Pterygota schoorkopfii Pterygota kamerunensis Pterygota macrocarpa Pterygota papuana Pterygota schweinfurthii Pterygota thwaitesii Pterygota trinervia Pterygota horsfieldii Pterygota adolfi-friederici Pterygota alata Pterygota amazonica Pterygota augouardii Pterygota bequaertii Pterygota bureavii Pterygota colombiana Pterygota perrieri Pterygota madagascariensis Pterygota mildbraedii Pterygota brasiliensis Pterygota excelsa
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