- Family:
- Myristicaceae R.Br.
Pycnanthus Warb.

[FZ]
Myristicaceae, B.L. Stannard. Flora Zambesiaca 9:2. 1997
- Morphology General Habit
- Evergreen trees or lianes, dioecious or monoecious.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves mostly cordate at the base, minutely punctate and ± glaucous beneath, strongly pinnately nerved; lateral nerves prominent, numerous, tertiary venation subparallel.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences paniculate, divaricately branched with flowers clustered in numerous dense obovoid-globose heads at the ends of the inflorescence branches; flowers sessile; bracteoles absent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Female flower perianth as in male; stigma sessile, indistinct. Male flower perianth 3–4-lobed; stamen filaments fused into a slender column; anthers 2–6, adnate to the column about the apical part.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit oblong, ellipsoid or ± globular with a thick cartilaginous pericarp, dehiscent; pericarp thickly woody-crustaceous in mature fruits.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed testa somewhat thin; aril laciniate; endosperm fatty, ruminate; cotyledons free almost to the base, suberect.
[FTEA]
Myristicaceae, Bernard Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1997
- Morphology General Habit
- Evergreen trees or lianes, usually considered dioecious (but see note under species)
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves mostly cordate at base and glaucous beneath, mostly with numerous lateral nerves and subparallel tertiary venation
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Panicles divaricate, with clustered or ± scattered heads of sessile claviform or obovoid flowers; bracteoles absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male with perianth 3–4-fid; stamens with filaments fused into a slender column; anthers 2–6, adnate to the apex of the column Female with perianth as in male; stigma sessile, indistinct
- sex Male
- Male with perianth 3–4-fid; stamens with filaments fused into a slender column; anthers 2–6, adnate to the apex of the column
- sex Female
- Female with perianth as in male; stigma sessile, indistinct
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit oblong, ellipsoid or ± globular, with thick fleshy pericarp, dehiscent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed with ± thin testa, laciniate aril and fatty ruminate endosperm; cotyledons free almost to the base, suberect.
Native to:
Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre
Pycnanthus Warb. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 13: 94 (1895 publ. 1896)
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
- —F.T.A. 6, 1: 157.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Kühn & Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 2: 464, fig. 99C (1993).
- in Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 1: 99 (1895)
- in Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 130, 252 (1897).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- G.F.P. 1: 150 (1964)
- Kuhn & Kubitzki in Kubitzki et al., Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 2: 464, fig. 99C (1993)
- in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 13, Generalvers.-Heft: 94 (1896)
- in N.B.G.B. 1: 99 (1895)
- in Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 68: 130, 252 (1897)
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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