- Family:
- Meliaceae Juss.
Turraeanthus Baill.

[FTEA]
Meliaceae, Styles & F. White (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees or treelets
- Morphology General Indumentum
- Indumentum of simple hairs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves pari- or imparipinnate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers unisexual (plants dioecious)
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx almost entire or shallowly or irregularly lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 4–5(–6), valvate, fused (to the middle or beyond) to the staminal tube
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Staminal tube cylindrical, slightly expanded at the mouth, margin crenate or shallowly lobed; anthers 8–12, in a single irregular whorl inserted within the throat of the staminal tube, completely included or partly exserted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Disc
- Disk absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary 4–5-locular; locules with 2 superposed or oblique ovules; style-head discoid, with a slight central depression
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a leathery, 3–5-valved, loculicidal capsule
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds with a fleshy aril.
Native to:
Angola, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zaïre
Turraeanthus Baill. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Adansonia 11: 261 (1874)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- Harms in E. & P. Pflanzenfam. 19B, 1: 147 (1940).
- in Adansonia 11: 261 (1874)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Hist. Pl. 5: 500 (1874–75)
- Pennington & Styles in Blumea 22: 493 (1975)
- in Adansonia 11: 261 (1874)
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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 2022. 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 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0