WorldFloraDB - Sloanea

Characteristics

Trees (rarely shrubs), the trunk often buttressed. Leaves alternate or opposite; stipules present, at least in bud; petioles various, often incrassate at one or both ends, terete or canaliculate; leaf-blades pinnately veined, the margin entire to dentate (spinose-dentate in 1 species). Inflorescences axillary, rarely terminal, com-monly racemose or paniculate, occasionally corymbose, corymbo-racemose, or umbellate, oc-flowered, rarely 1-flowered. Flowers with a calyx of 4 to 11 sepals, usually free; petals none (1 species with 2 whorls of perianth-parts of 4 members each); stamens ca 50 to more than 100, various, but always with the connective continued above the anther-sacs into a knob or awn; pistil 3-to 6-loculed, the ovules 8-10 in 2 rows per locule, with axial placentation; style entire or parted at the apex into as many branches as there are locules in the ovary. Fruit a loculici-dally dehiscent capsule; valves 3-6, rigid, often woody; capsule unarmed, or armed with spines which may be firmly attached and flexible or rigid, straight or curved, or spines easily detached and irritant; seeds 1 or 2 per capsule (rarely 3) covered to the middle or almost completely covered by an aril growing from, and firmly attached to, the chalazal end (except 1 species without an aril), the raphe often prominent, the testa thin, the endosperm abundant, the embryo straight with thin, flat cotyledons.

Trees or shrubs. Buds usually pubescent. Leaves alternate or clustered at twig apices, simple, petiolate, margin entire or serrate, pinnately veined; stipules caducous. Flowers solitary or in racemes, axillary, long stalked, usually bisexual. Sepals 4 or 5, valvate or imbricate, ovate, slightly connate at base. Petals 4 or 5, rarely absent, obovate, imbricate, margin entire or dentate at apices. Stamens numerous, inserted on disk; filaments short; anthers opening by vertical slit, connective usually elongated as beak. Disk broad, thick. Ovary 3-7-loculed; ovules several per locule, furrowed, pubescent; style free or connate, subulate. Capsule globose or ovoid, prickly, septicidally dehiscent into 3-7 valves; exocarp woody, thick; endocarp thin, leathery, usually detached from exocarp when dry. Seeds 1 to several, pendulous, usually arillate in lower 1/2; endosperm fleshy, copious. Cotyledons flat.

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327967-2
WFO ID	wfo-4000035606
COL ID	7J33
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	627955
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
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Synonyms

Forgetina Antholoma Sloanea Anoniodes Echinocarpus Courimari Lecostomon Sloania Adenobasium Dasynema Phoenicospermum

Lower taxons

Sloanea lanceolata Sloanea macrophylla Sloanea magnifolia Sloanea micrantha Sloanea laurifolia Sloanea macbrydei Sloanea lepida Sloanea loquitoi Sloanea longipes Sloanea ledermannii Sloanea pacuritana Sloanea obtusifolia Sloanea parkinsonii Sloanea montana Sloanea nymanii Sloanea langii Sloanea faginea Sloanea fendleriana Sloanea floribunda Sloanea fragrans Sloanea garcia-cossioi Sloanea davidsei Sloanea durissima Sloanea grandiflora Sloanea glabra Sloanea koghiensis Sloanea kuhlmannii Sloanea lamii Sloanea javanica Sloanea haplopoda Sloanea granulosa Sloanea guianensis Sloanea insularis Sloanea parvifructa Sloanea velutina Sloanea versteeghii Sloanea wurdackii Sloanea zuliaensis Sloanea pulleniana Sloanea tuerckheimii Sloanea pittieriana Sloanea pullei Sloanea pulchra Sloanea pseudodentata Sloanea pseudogranulosa Sloanea pubescens Sloanea rufa Sloanea poilanei Sloanea synandra Sloanea steyermarkii Sloanea robusta Sloanea subpsilocarpa Sloanea suaveolens Sloanea schomburgkii Sloanea schumannii Sloanea celebica Sloanea crassifolia Sloanea chocoana Sloanea paradisearum Sloanea esmeraldana Sloanea megacarpa Sloanea meianthera Sloanea merevariensis Sloanea lasiocarpa Sloanea forbesii Sloanea eichleri Sloanea woollsii Sloanea raynaliana Sloanea pubiflora Sloanea ramiflora Sloanea picapica Sloanea shankii Sloanea sinemariensis Sloanea cavicola Sloanea brachystyla Sloanea brachytepala Sloanea cataniapensis Sloanea brevispina Sloanea caribaea Sloanea carrenoi Sloanea petalata Sloanea grandezii Sloanea amygdalina Sloanea longisepala Sloanea bathiei Sloanea schippii Sloanea petenensis Sloanea cruenta Sloanea mexicana Sloanea guapilensis Sloanea froesii Sloanea hainanensis Sloanea hemsleyana Sloanea uniflora Sloanea rhodantha Sloanea berteroana Sloanea megaphylla Sloanea sogerensis Sloanea leptocarpa Sloanea changii Sloanea tomentosa Sloanea dasycarpa Sloanea chingiana Sloanea sterculiacea Sloanea mollis Sloanea sinensis Sloanea integrifolia Sloanea parviflora Sloanea kappleriana Sloanea medusula Sloanea echinocarpa Sloanea nitida Sloanea trichosticha Sloanea curatellifolia Sloanea ilicifolia Sloanea jamaicensis Sloanea erismoides Sloanea porphyrocarpa Sloanea grandis Sloanea streinmannii Sloanea hirsuta Sloanea trinitensis Sloanea brassii Sloanea aberrans Sloanea tieghemi Sloanea retusa Sloanea sigun Sloanea brenesii Sloanea dentata Sloanea geniculata Sloanea rugosa Sloanea hatschbachii Sloanea heteroneura Sloanea pseudoverticillata Sloanea xichouensis Sloanea eugenifloresiae Sloanea multinervis Sloanea aequatorialis Sloanea anoriensis Sloanea arguta Sloanea cararaensis Sloanea conferta Sloanea congesta Sloanea cymosa Sloanea decussata Sloanea ensiformis Sloanea erythrocarpa Sloanea ferruginea Sloanea illinizae Sloanea minima Sloanea paucinervia Sloanea pulvinata Sloanea revoluta Sloanea rosea Sloanea rubiginosa Sloanea sericea Sloanea tiwintza Sloanea uncinata Sloanea veracruzana Sloanea yasuniana Sloanea dubia Sloanea herrerae Sloanea rojasiae Sloanea helianthoides Sloanea huilaeana Sloanea garckeana Sloanea duckei Sloanea dussii Sloanea spathulata Sloanea akaraiensis Sloanea ampla Sloanea aculeata Sloanea australis Sloanea malayana Sloanea papuana Sloanea grossa Sloanea gymnocarpa Sloanea billardierei Sloanea castanocarpa Sloanea brevipes Sloanea terniflora Sloanea laevigata Sloanea latifolia

Sloanea L.

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Genus

Angiosperms > Oxalidales > Elaeocarpaceae