View source for Leitneria ← Leitneria 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=Leitneria |accepted_authority=Chapman |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Fl. South. U.S., |place=427. 1860 |year=1860 }} |common_names=Corkwood |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Leitneriaceae;Leitneria |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Leitneriaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leitneria]]</div></div> |etymology=named for Dr. Edward Frederick Leitner, 1812-1838, German physician, naturalist, and explorer of southern Florida |volume=Volume 3 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 415 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees, forming dense thickets. <b>Leaves</b> 5-ranked, clustered toward branch tips; leaf scars with 3 bundle scars. <b>Leaf</b> blade: margins entire; surfaces densely pubescent, becoming ± glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> in flower before leaves appear, in axils of previous year's leaves; basal and apical bracts often sterile; staminate catkins compound, bracts 40-50, bracteoles absent; pistillate catkins simple, spikelike, bracts 10-15, each subtending 2 small bracteoles. <b>Flowers</b> subtended by bracts; bracts spirally arranged, deltate-ovate, apex acute, surface silky-pubescent abaxially. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: cymules 3-flowered, sessile; stamens clustered; pistils absent. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers solitary; perianth present; sepals small, scalelike; staminodes absent; ovary sessile, style linear, stigma deciduous, decurrent, abaxially grooved, groove facing bract. <b>Drupes</b> subtended by persistent bracts, bracteoles, and sepals. <b>x</b> = 16.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |discussion=<p>Bisexual cymules and 2-locular ovaries may occur sporadically; they merit investigation (R. K. Godfrey and A. F. Clewell 1965).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Leitneria |author= |authority=Chapman |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Leitneriaceae |reference=None |publication title=Fl. South. U.S., |publication year=1860 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_703.xml |genus=Leitneria }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Leitneriaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Leitneriaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Leitneria.