Labisia alata

Description

Family Myrsinaceae

Trees , shrubs , climbers [or rarely herbs]. Leaves simple , alternate, rarely opposite or whorled , without stipules, often glandular . Inflorescences terminal , axillary , or at apices of lateral branches, racemose (often paniculate ), corymbose , cymose , umbellate , or fascicled on scaly spur branches in leaf axils . Flowers bisexual or polygamous, rarely unisexual and plants polygamodioecious or dioecious, 4- or 5(or 6) -merous, actinomorphic . Sepals basally connate or free , persistent , usually glandular. Petals basally connate or rarely free, usually glandular. Stamens as many as and opposite to petals, usually adnate to base or throat of corolla tube , sometimes free, rarely united into a tube; anthers 2-celled, dorsifixed , dehiscing longitudinally or by apical slits or pores , rarely transversely septate ; filaments present or absent. Ovary superior, rarely inferior to half-inferior, 1-celled; placentation free-central , sometimes basal; ovules 1 to several in 11 to many rows , usually embedded in placenta, anatropous or semicampylotropous. Style 1; stigma simple or lobed . Fruit drupes with fleshy exocarp or capsules. Seeds 1 to many; endosperm fleshy or horny ; embryo x = 10-13, 23.

About 42 genera and more than 2,200 species: primarily in tropical and subtropical or warm temperate regions of both hemispheres; five genera and 120 species (51 endemic) in China.

Chinese genera of economic value include Ardisia (medicine, oil , edible, wild vegetables), Maesa (edible, tea, dye), Aegiceras (tannin, fine fuel), Embelia (vermifuge, edible), Myrsine (medicine, fine wood , tannin, fuel) .Jie Chen & John J. Pipoly, III "Myrsinaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- Kingdom: Plantae () - Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae () - Cavalier-Smith, 1981
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta () - Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina ()
        Infraphylum: Radiatopses () - Kenrick & Crane, 1997
        Class: Magnoliopsida () - Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Dilleniidae () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Primulanae () - R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1996
        Order: Myrsinales () - Bromhead, 1838
        Family: Myrsinaceae () - R. Brown, 1810 - Myrsine Family
        Genus: Labisia ()
        Specific epithet: alata - N.E.Br.
        Botanical name: - Labisia alata N.E.Br.