Difference between revisions of "Vallesia"
Fl. Peruv. Prodr., 28, plate 5[top]. 1794.
imported>Volume Importer |
imported>Volume Importer |
||
| Line 43: | Line 43: | ||
|publication year=1794 | |publication year=1794 | ||
|special status= | |special status= | ||
| − | |source xml= | + | |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V14/V14_54.xml |
|genus=Vallesia | |genus=Vallesia | ||
}}<!-- | }}<!-- | ||
-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Apocynaceae]] | -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Apocynaceae]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:15, 24 November 2024
Shrubs, more rarely trees, to 12 m; latex sometimes present, milky [clear]. Stems erect, unarmed, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent. Leaves persistent, alternate, petiolate; stipular colleters interpetiolar; laminar colleters absent. Inflorescences extra-axillary, occasionally terminal, cymose, pedunculate. Flowers: calycine colleters absent; corolla white [yellowish orange], salverform, rarely urceolate-salverform, aestivation sinistrorse; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at or near orifice of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, adherent to stigma, connectives apiculate, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectary adherent to base of ovary. Fruits drupaceous, solitary (paired), erect, white, oblong-ovoid to reniform, terete to somewhat compressed, smooth, glabrous. Seeds oblong-ovoid, somewhat flattened, not winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. x = 10.
Distribution
Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America.
Discussion
Species ca. 10 (1 in the flora).
Selected References
None.