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Urobotrya Stapf

Genus

Angiosperms > Santalales > Opiliaceae

Characteristics

Shrubs or small trees, twigs glabrous or puberulous. Leaves glabrous or midrib hairy, thinly-coriaceous. Flowers bisexual, in racemes, usually three pedicelled flowers per bract; rachis of inflorescence slender, glabrous or puberulous. Bracts broad, green, with hyaline ciliate margin, densely imbricate, caducous before anthesis, only some basal (smaller) bracts persistent. Flowers 3-or 4 (-5)-merous. Tepals free, oblong, acute. Stamens exceeding the perianth. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary conical to cylindric; stigma sessile. Drupe ellipsoid, mesocarp thinly-fleshy; embryo with 3 long cotyledons.
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Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Racemes axillary or at defoliate nodes; bracts narrowly lanceolate, ovate, or ± rounded, densely imbricate, margin hyaline and ciliate, usually caducous. Flowers bisexual, usually 3 per bract. Racemes glabrous. Pedicels glabrous or puberulous. Tepals 3 or 4(or 5), free, oblong, apex acute. Filaments filiform. Disk annular, fleshy. Ovary conic to cylindric. Stigma sessile. Drupe mesocarp thinly fleshy; embryo with 3 cotyledons.
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Evergreen (in Thailand rarely deciduous) forest, from the lowland up to c. 550 (-1000) m.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses. Leaves and/or fruits of U. siamensis HIEPKO in Thailand locally used as a medicine against intestinal parasites, in large amounts a deadly poison.
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Images

Urobotrya unspecified picture

Distribution

Urobotrya world distribution map, present in Angola, Central African Republic, China, Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Liberia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Uruguay, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:28304-1
WFO ID wfo-4000039839
COL ID 8W4JB
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Synonyms

Urobotrya

Lower taxons

Urobotrya siamensis Urobotrya parviflora Urobotrya latisquama Urobotrya sparsiflora Urobotrya floresensis Urobotrya congolana Urobotrya longipes
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