View source for Berchemia ← Berchemia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Berchemia |accepted_authority=Necker ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Prodr. |place=2: 22. 1825 |year=1825 }} |common_names=Rattan |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Berchemia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Berchemia]]</div></div> |etymology=For Jacob Pierre Berthoud van Berchem, eighteenth-century Dutch mineralogist and naturalist |volume=Volume 12 |mention_page=page 44, 62, 70 |treatment_page=page 59 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Woody </b>vines [shrubs, trees], tendrils absent, unarmed; bud scales present. <b>Stems</b> twining, glabrous [hairy]. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous [persistent], alternate; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined, secondary, and usually tertiary, veins strongly parallel. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, paniclelike thyrses [corymblike cymes or fascicles]; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> functionally unisexual (plants functionally dioecious) [bisexual]; hypanthium patelliform, cupulate, or hemispheric, 2–3 mm wide; sepals 5, staminate spreading, pistillate erect, greenish, triangular [rarely linear or narrowly lanceolate], keeled adaxially; petals 5, cream or yellowish to greenish white, flat, spatulate to lanceolate, short-clawed; nectary fleshy, 10-lobed, filling hypanthium; stamens 5; ovary superior, 2-locular; style 1. <b>Fruits</b> drupes; stone 1, indehiscent.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=c;e United States;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala);Asia;Africa;tropical to warm temperate regions. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 12 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p><i>Berchemia scandens</i> is the only New World species in the genus. The disjunction of <i>B. scandens</i> from the southeastern United States to Chiapas and Guatemala is remarkable but there seem to be no morphological differences.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Berchemia |author=Guy L. Nesom |authority=Necker ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Rhamnaceae |distribution=c;e United States;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala);Asia;Africa;tropical to warm temperate regions. |reference=None |publication title=Prodr. |publication year=1825 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_990.xml |genus=Berchemia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Rhamnaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Rhamnaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Berchemia.