Wilkiea F.Muell.

Genus

Angiosperms > Laurales > Monimiaceae

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs, monoecious (or perhaps rarely dioecious). Leaves entire or mostly toothed, chartaceous to often distinctly coriaceous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, cymes or panicles, with usually 3–9 flowers, but sometimes solitary or rarely up to 30. Male flowers ± globose; tepals 4–8, around a small ostiole; stamens 4–8 (–30), usually ± regularly arranged in pairs on floor and lower walls of receptacle, but sometimes in vertical rows; anthers deltoid, dehiscing by a single apical slit curving over the stamen apex; connective not prolonged into an appendage; filaments short to long, thick and slightly flattened, glabrous or (in one species) densely pubescent. Female flowers flattened-globose, with a large ostiole, calyptrate at maturity; tepals minute, decussate, the outer whorls of usually 2 pairs (occasionally more) somewhat distinct, the inner whorls thickened and glandular forming a hyperstigma; carpels numerous, the ovary glabrous or densely pubescent; stigma short, hemispherical to conical; staminodes absent. Upper part of fruiting receptacle falling off forming a circular scar. Fruit a cluster of variably sessile to shortly stipitate drupes.
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Tree, probably monoecious. Leaves crenate, slightly fleshy. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymes or panicles, of few (female) or many (male) flowers. Male flowers globose to clavate; tepals 4 around a small ostiole; stamens numerous, scattered on lower and side walls of receptacle; anthers deltoid, dehiscing by a single apical slit curving over the stamen apex; connective not prolonged into an appendage; filaments very short, glabrous, the anthers ±sessile. Female flowers poorly known, calyptrate at maturity, apparently without a hyperstigma; carpels relatively few, the ovary glabrous. Upper part of fruiting receptacle falling off forming a circular scar. Fruit a cluster of stipitate drupes.
Shrubs or trees with opposite or verticillate, entire or serrate leaves. Male receptacle ± globose with small tepals surrounding an ostiole; stamens up to c. 30 irregularly spaced over the receptacle; anthers with a single horizontal or horseshoe-shaped slit. Female receptacle ± globose with tepals surrounding a small ostiole, thickened glands within the ostiole; carpels numerous (up to c. 100), sessile on the lower half of the receptacle, style subulate; upper half of the receptacle becoming detached by a circular scar. Drupes sessile or shortly stipi-tate.
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In Malesia in montane rain-forest.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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