View source for Carissa ← Carissa 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=Carissa |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Syst. Nat. ed. |place=12, 2: 135, 189. 1767 |year=1767 |other_info_on_pub=name conserved }} |special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status |code=I |label=Introduced }} |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Carissa |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carissa]]</div></div> |etymology=Derivation uncertain; perhaps Sanskrit krishna, dark blue, or Greek charis, grace, alluding to appearance of mature fruit |volume=Volume 14 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[trees, vines]; latex milky. <b>Stems</b> erect [scandent], armed with paired spines [unarmed], glabrous or eglandular-pubescent especially on younger growth. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, opposite [whorled], petiolate; stipular colleters intrapetiolar and interpetiolar; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal [axillary], cymose, short-pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters present or absent; corolla white [pink], salverform, aestivation sinistrorse [dextrorse]; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at top of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, not adherent to stigma, connectives not appendiculate or enlarged, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectaries absent. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, solitary, erect [pendulous], red or purple [black], globose or ellipsoid, terete or somewhat compressed, surface smooth, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> obliquely ovate to elliptic or orbiculate, flattened, not winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Ocean Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |discussion=<p>Species 7 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Carissa |author=David E. Lemke |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Apocynaceae |distribution=Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Ocean Islands;Australia. |introduced=true |reference=None |publication title=Syst. Nat. ed. |publication year=1767 |special status=Introduced |source xml= |genus=Carissa }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Apocynaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Apocynaceae (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/ID/Special status (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Carissa. Facts... more about "Carissa"RDF feedAuthorDavid E. Lemke +AuthorityLinnaeus +DistributionAsia +, Africa +, Indian Ocean Islands +, Pacific Ocean Islands + and Australia. +EtymologyDerivation uncertain + and perhaps Sanskrit krishna, dark blue, or Greek charis, grace, alluding to appearance of mature fruit +Introducedtrue +Number of lower taxa1 +Publication titleSyst. Nat. ed. +Publication year1767 +ReferenceNone +Special statusIntroduced +Taxon familyApocynaceae +Taxon nameCarissa +Taxon parentApocynaceae +Taxon rankgenus +VolumeVolume 14 +