Yaundea pinnata

Description

Family Connaraceae

Trees small, shrubs , or vines , erect or scandent , evergreen or deciduous. Leaves alternate, exstipulate , petiolate ; leaf blade odd-pinnate, 3-foliolate, or 1-foliolate; leaflets subopposite or alternate, usually leathery, margin entire , rarely lobulate . Inflorescences terminal , pseudoterminal, or axillary , paniculate or racemose, bracteate . Flowers bisexual , rarely unisexual , actinomorphic , small. Sepals (4 or) 5, free or united at very base only, imbricate or valvate , persistent and clasping base of fruit. Petals (4 or) 5, free, rarely slightly connate at middle , imbricate or valvate, rarely circinate . Stamens 5â��10, hypogynous or perigynous, in 2 whorls alternately longer and shorter, those opposite petals often shorter and abortive ; filaments free or shortly connate at base; anthers didymous , dorsifixed in proximal 1/2, introrse , short, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk thin or absent, surrounded by base of stamens. Carpels (1â��) 5(â��8), free, 1-celled, hirsute . Style subulate or filiform ; stigma subcapitate , simple or 2-lobed. Ovules 2 in each carpel (1 sometimes sterile ), collateral , erect. Fruit a usually solitary follicle, sessile or stipitate , dehiscing usually along adaxial suture , sometimes along abaxial one, very rarely circumscissile at base, sometimes indehiscent. Seed 1(or 2), erect, usually arillate , rarely exarillate ; testa thick; aril colored , fleshy ; endosperm present or absent; embryo straight; cotyledons thick and fleshy in exalbuminous seeds, thin in albuminous ones.

Between 12 and 24 genera and 180â��390 species: mainly in Africa and tropical Asia, some species in the subtropics, only a few species in the New World; six genera and nine species (one endemic) in China.Lingdi Lu & Nicholas J. Turland "Connaraceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 435. 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: Rosidae () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Rutanae () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Connarales () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Family: Connaraceae () - R. Brown, 1818 - Connarus Family
        Genus: Yaundea ()
        Specific epithet: pinnata - G.Schellenb.
        Botanical name: - Yaundea pinnata G.Schellenb.