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Heisteria spruceana

Description

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Family Olacaceae

Shrubs , scandent shrubs, trees , or lianas, sometimes hemiparasitic, often glabrous . Lateral shoots sometimes with bud scales at base . Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite; petiole well developed; leaf blade simple , margin entire; veins usually pinnate, sometimes palmate and 3-5-veined. Inflorescences axillary , rarely also terminal , cymose , fasciculate, racemelike, spikelike, or umbellate , mostly small; bracts small and inconspicuous. Flowers usually bisexual , actinomorphic , 3-7-merous, sometimes heterostylous. Calyx small at anthesis , cupular, discoid , or lobed , sometimes accrescent to partly or wholly covering fruit, sometimes fused to fruit (in Schoepfia) . Petals free or basally connate , valvate . Disk cuplike or annular , rarely free glands, sometimes accrescent and covering fruit apex (in Schoepfia) . Stamens 3-15, rarely in part staminodes, epipetalous ; anthers basi- or medi-fixed, usually 2-loculed, longitudinally dehiscent . Ovary usually superior, rarely semisuperior but sometimes apparently inferior through fusion with calyx, 2-5-loculed or semiloculed with apex of ovary 1-loculed; ovules solitary in each locule or semilocule, pendent from apex of free central placenta, usually anatropous , integuments 1 or 2. Style terminal, simple; stigma 2-5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, sometimes with an accrescent calyx. Seed solitary; testa thin; endosperm abundant; embryo small; cotyledons 2-4.

Between 23 and 27 genera and 180 250 species: tropical and warm-temperate regions worldwide; five genera (one endemic) and ten species (three endemic) in China.[1]

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Engl. Publication : Fl. Bras. (Martius) 12(2): 15

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Heisteria

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 82 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

H. acuminata · H. acuminata intermedia · H. acuta · H. amazonica · H. amphoricarpa · H. asplundii · H. barbata · H. biflora · H. blachetiana · H. blanchetiana · H. brasiliensis · H. burchelii · H. burchellii · H. caloneura · H. cauliflora · H. celastrinea · H. chippiana · H. citrifolia · H. coccinea · H. concinna · H. costaricensis · H. cyanocarpa · H. cyathiformis · H. densifrons · H. duckei · H. elegans · H. fatoensis · H. flexuosa · H. guianensis · H. heistera · H. huberiana · H. insculpta · H. iquitensis · H. ixiamensis · H. kappleri · H. krukovii · H. latifolia · H. laxiflora · H. longifolia · H. longipes · H. macrophylla · H. maguirei · H. maytenoides · H. media · H. megalophylla · H. microcalyx · H. microcarpa · H. minor · H. mitior · H. nitida · H. olivae · H. ovata · H. pallida · H. parvicalyx · H. parvifolia · H. pentandra · H. perianthomega · H. povedae · H. pungens · H. raddiana · H. rhaptostylum · H. rubricalyx · H. salicifolia · H. scandens · H. sessilis · H. silvanii · H. silviani · H. silvianii · H. skutchii · H. sleumeri · H. smilacina · H. spruceana · H. stereoneura · H. subsessilis · H. surinamensis · H. tessmanniana · H. trillesiana · H. tubicina · H. uleana · H. vageleri · H. winkleri · H. zimmereri

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Data Sources

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Footnotes

  1. Huaxing Qiu & Michael G. Gilbert "Olacaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 200. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/2/2009