View source for Tetracoccus dioicus

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|accepted_name=Tetracoccus dioicus
|accepted_authority=Parry
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=W. Amer. Sci.
|place=1: 13. 1885
|year=1885
}}
|common_names=Parry’s tetracoccus
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Picrodendraceae;Tetracoccus;Tetracoccus dioicus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Picrodendraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tetracoccus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tetracoccus dioicus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 326
|treatment_page=page 327
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>to 2 m. <b>Leaves</b> subopposite, opposite, or whorled, not clustered on short shoots; blade oblong or oblanceolate to linear, 20–30 × 1–4 mm, base obtuse to cuneate, margins entire or remotely serrulate, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate sparingly branched racemelike thyrses, to 20 mm; pistillate flowers solitary. <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate present; pistillate 6–15 mm, glabrous. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 6–10; stamens 5–10, filaments villous basally. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 7–13, in 1 series (sometimes subequal sepals alternate), red, 3–5 mm, glabrate abaxially, minutely sericeous-tomentose adaxially; pistil usually 4-carpellate, 3 mm, crisp-tomentose. <b>Seeds</b> (1–)2 per locule, glossy brownish red, oblong, 4–5 mm, usually with one flattened radial surface, smooth; caruncle present.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun and sporadically year-round.
|habitat=Coastal chaparral and coastal scrub.
|elevation=100–700 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Tetracoccus dioicus</i> is found in the flora area in Orange and San Diego counties.</p>
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name=Tetracoccus dioicus
|author=
|authority=Parry
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Picrodendraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun and sporadically year-round.
|habitat=Coastal chaparral and coastal scrub.
|elevation=100–700 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=W. Amer. Sci.
|publication year=1885
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
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|genus=Tetracoccus
|species=Tetracoccus dioicus
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