- Family: Salicaceae Mirb.
Flacourtia Comm. ex L'Hér.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & S. Africa to SW. Pacific.
[FZ]
Flacourtiaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Habit
- Shrubs or trees; branches often spinose, trunk occasionally spinose.
- Leaves
- Leaves petiolate, mostly crenate.
- Calyx
- Sepals 4–7, slightly connate at the base, imbricate.
- Corolla
- Petals 0.
- 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.
- Fruits
- Fruit a fleshy berry with 4–16 seeds usually in pairs one above the other.
- Seeds
- Seeds obovoid; cotyledons ± orbicular.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Habit
- Shrubs or trees, sometimes with spines
- Leaves
- Leaves entire or serrate-crenate
- Corolla
- Petals lacking
- 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
- 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
- Habit
- Shrubs or trees, sometimes with spiny branches and/or trunk
- Leaves
- Leaves alternate, entire or serrate-crenate, penninerved, petiolate, exstipulate
- 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
- Calyx
- Sepals (3–)4–5(–7), slightly connate at the base, imbricate in bud
- Corolla
- Petals 0
- 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
- 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
- Fruits
- Fruit a fleshy drupe with 4–16 seeds usually in pairs one above the other
- 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, 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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