View source for Decumaria ← Decumaria 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=Decumaria |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. ed. |place=2, 2: 1663. 1763 |year=1763 }} |common_names=Climbing-hydrangea;wood-vamp |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Hydrangeaceae;Decumaria |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Hydrangeaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Decumaria]]</div></div> |etymology=Latin decumae, tenths, and -aria, possessing, alluding to sometimes 10-merous flowers |volume=Volume 12 |mention_page=page 463, 486 |treatment_page=page 489 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Woody </b>vines. <b>Stems</b> climbing, sometimes trailing and forming loose nonflowering mats. <b>Bark</b> exfoliating in grayish or reddish brown sheets, strips, or strings. <b>Branches</b> spreading laterally or declining; twigs glabrous or with simple trichomes. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous or semideciduous, opposite; petiole present; blade ovate, elliptic, obovate, oblanceolate, subround, or round, herbaceous, margins usually entire, rarely dentate or lobed, plane; venation pinnate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, on shoots of the season, corymbs, (20–)50–100-flowered; peduncle present. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; perianth and androecium epigynous; hypanthium completely adnate to ovary, turbinate, strongly 7–12-ribbed in fruit; sepals persistent, 7–12, erect, triangular, glabrous; petals 7–12, valvate, spreading, white, lanceolate, elliptic, or oblong, base essentially sessile, surfaces glabrous; stamens 20–30; filaments distinct, dorsiventrally flattened, linear, tapering abruptly just proximal to apex, apex not 2-lobed; anthers suborbiculate to ovate; pistil 6–12-carpellate, ovary completely inferior, 6–12-locular; placentation axile proximally, parietal distally; style persistent, 1. <b>Capsules</b> turbinate, cartilaginous, dehiscence intercostal, lateral walls separating from ribs, eventually leaving cagelike remnants. <b>Seeds</b> 10–20 per locule, yellow, fusiform. <b>x</b> = 14.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=se United States;Asia (China). |discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>A molecular phylogenetic study of tribe Hydrangeeae (Y. De Smet et al. 2015) found <i>Hydrangea</i> to be polyphyletic. The authors promoted adoption of a broader, monophyletic concept of <i>Hydrangea</i> that includes all eight genera in the tribe, including <i>Decumaria</i>. <i>Decumaria</i> is treated here in its traditional sense.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Decumaria |author=Ronald L. McGregor† |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Hydrangeaceae |distribution=se United States;Asia (China). |reference=None |publication title=Sp. Pl. ed. |publication year=1763 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_1050.xml |genus=Decumaria }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Hydrangeaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Hydrangeaceae (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 Decumaria.