- Family: Salicaceae Mirb.
Flacourtia Comm. ex L'Hér.
[FZ]
Flacourtiaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs or trees; branches often spinose, trunk occasionally spinose.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves petiolate, mostly crenate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 4–7, slightly connate at the base, imbricate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 0.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male flowers with an extrastaminal disk usually broken into free glands; stamens 15–?, anthers dorsifixed, rudiment of ovary 0. Female flowers with a usually entire or crenulate disk, ovary incompletely (2) 4–6 (10)-locular by false septa; ovules 2 per loculus one above the other; styles as many as the loculi, free or connate, persistent. Flowers dioecious, rarely bisexual, small, in short axillary racemes or solitary.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a fleshy berry with 4–16 seeds usually in pairs one above the other.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds obovoid; cotyledons ± orbicular.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs or trees, sometimes with spines
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves entire or serrate-crenate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals lacking
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Female flowers: receptacle with a disk; ovary incompletely divided into usually 4–6 cells; styles as many as the locules, free or ± connate Male flowers: stamens 15 to numerous, surrounded by a ring of glands Flowers small, in short axillary racemes or solitary, unisexual or rarely bisexual. Sepals (3–)4–5(–7), imbricate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit fleshy with 4–16 seeds.
- Distribution
- Some 20 species in the Old World tropics, two of which in Africa.
[FTEA]
Flacourtiaceae, H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1975
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs or trees, sometimes with spiny branches and/or trunk
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, entire or serrate-crenate, penninerved, petiolate, exstipulate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers dioecious, or rarely bisexual, small, in short axillary racemes, sometimes reduced to a solitary flower Female flowers: sepals as in the ♂ flowers. Receptacle with an entire, crenulate or lobed disk. Ovary sessile, incompletely (2–)4–6(–8)-locular by false septa; placentas 4–8, pluri-ovulate, with 2 ovules per locule one above the other; styles as many as the locules, free or ± connate, persistent; stigmas small, inflated or shortly 2-lobed Male flowers: stamens 15 to numerous, inserted on a receptacle which bears an extra-staminal annular disk usually broken into ± free glands; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifixed. Rudiment of ovary 0
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals (3–)4–5(–7), slightly connate at the base, imbricate in bud
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 0
- sex Male
- Male flowers: stamens 15 to numerous, inserted on a receptacle which bears an extra-staminal annular disk usually broken into ± free glands; filaments filiform; anthers dorsifixed. Rudiment of ovary 0
- sex Female
- Female flowers: sepals as in the ♂ flowers. Receptacle with an entire, crenulate or lobed disk. Ovary sessile, incompletely (2–)4–6(–8)-locular by false septa; placentas 4–8, pluri-ovulate, with 2 ovules per locule one above the other; styles as many as the locules, free or ± connate, persistent; stigmas small, inflated or shortly 2-lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a fleshy drupe with 4–16 seeds usually in pairs one above the other
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds obovoid-ellipsoid, somewhat flattened; testa crustaceous.
Native to:
Aldabra, Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mozambique, Myanmar, Myanmar, Namibia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Uganda, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Bahamas, Cook Is., Dominican Republic, Hawaii, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mauritius, New Caledonia, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Society Is., Taiwan, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Is.
- Flacourtia amalotricha A.C.Sm.
- Flacourtia cavaleriei H.Lév.
- Flacourtia degeneri A.C.Sm.
- Flacourtia flavescens Willd.
- Flacourtia helferi Gamble ex Ridl.
- Flacourtia indica (Burm.f.) Merr.
- Flacourtia inermis Roxb.
- Flacourtia jangomas (Lour.) Raeusch.
- Flacourtia kinabaluensis Sleumer
- Flacourtia latifolia (Hook.f. & Thomson) T.Cooke
- Flacourtia mollipila Sleumer
- Flacourtia mollis Hook.f. & Thomson
- Flacourtia montana J.Graham
- Flacourtia occidentalis Blatt.
- Flacourtia oppositifolia Gagnep.
- Flacourtia ramontchi L'Hér.
- Flacourtia rukam Zoll. & Moritzi
- Flacourtia subintegra A.C.Sm.
- Flacourtia territorialis Airy Shaw
- Flacourtia tomentella Miq.
- Flacourtia vitiensis (Seem.) A.C.Sm.
- Flacourtia vogelii Hook.f.
- Flacourtia zippelii Slooten
Flacourtia Comm. ex L'Hér. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Stirp. Nov.: 59 (1786)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.
- Killick, D.J.B. (1976). Flacourtiaceae (including Samydaceae) Flora of Southern Africa 22: 53-92. Botanical Research Institute, Department of Agriculture.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 1: 120.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Stirp. Nov. 3: 59, t. 30, 31 (1786).
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Stirp. Nov. 3: 59, t. 30 & 30/B (1786)
Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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