WorldFloraDB - Rhopalopilia

Characteristics

Shrubs or woody climbers. Leaves glabrous to tomentose. Inflorescence axillary, umbellate or subumbellate when mature. Flowers regular and hermaphrodite. Petals 4–5, free, reflexed, rapidly caducous. Stamens free or attached basally to petals, caducous. Receptacle cupuliform, ± 4–5-lobed. Disk-glands fleshy. Ovary small, bearing 1 pendent ovule. Fruit subglobose to ellipsoid. Seed large, stone-like.

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Leaf-lamina papyraceous to pergamentaceous, ± distinctly pellucid-punctulate; petiole very short, articulated at the base.

Shrubs scandent or occasionally erect; young branches and leaves glabrous or variously pilose.

Fruit globose to ellipsoid, with a thin pericarp and a large stone.

Inflorescences umbellate; peduncle slender, claviform.

Stamens free or almost so, caducous.

Petals reflexed, caducous.

Disk-glands fleshy.

Calyx cupuliform.

Flowers minute.

Ovary free.

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:28274-1
WFO ID	wfo-4000033085
COL ID	8WKGZ
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Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Rhopalopilia

Lower taxons

Rhopalopilia hallei Rhopalopilia pallens Rhopalopilia altescandens

WorldFloraDB 2024

Rhopalopilia Pierre

Genus

Angiosperms > Santalales > Opiliaceae