- Family: Annonaceae Juss.
Toussaintia Boutique
This genus is accepted, and its native range is W. Central Tropical Africa.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Annonaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Habit
- Climbing shrubs with an indumentum of simple hairs
- Flowers
- Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary, solitary or in 2–3-flowered cymes borne on the leafy shoots; buds ovate-oblong; bracts and bracteoles round to elliptic, persistent
- Calyx
- Sepals 3, valvate, thick, free, entirely covering the petals in the bud, the margins of the sepals sometimes distinctly raised so that the buds are 3-ribbed
- Corolla
- Petals 6–10, either in 2 definite whorls or 2–3 irregular whorls, imbricate, free, subequal
- Stamens
- Stamens very numerous, arranged horizontally on a remarkably developed cylindrical androgynophore, linear or cuneiform; connectives thick, expanded or distinctly capitate above the anther-cells
- Carpels
- Carpels numerous, situated at the apex of the androgynophore, ovoid-oblong, with 6–20 biseriate or uniseriate ovules; style linear-oblong or obsolete, the stigma simple or with 2–several lobes
- Fruits
- Monocarps ellipsoid to cylindric, several-seeded, longitudinally ribbed; seeds ellipsoid, arranged biseriately.
Images
Distribution
Accepted Species
Other Data
Toussaintia Boutique appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 21: 97 (1951)
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Le Thomas in Adansonia, sér. 2, 7: 97 (1967)
- in B.J.B.B. 21: 97, t.1 (1951)
- in F.C.B. 2:278 (1951)
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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