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

[FZ]
Myristicaceae, B.L. Stannard. Flora Zambesiaca 9:2. 1997
- Morphology General Habit
- Evergreen trees, monoecious or dioecious.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves subcoriaceous, rounded to cuneate at the base, minutely punctate beneath, lateral nerves not prominent, tertiary venation reticulate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences capitate with flowers densely clustered in sub-globose shortly pedunculate heads in leaf axils, bracteate; bracteoles absent; flowers unisexual, shortly pedicellate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male flower perianth funnel-shaped, 3–4-lobed; stamen filaments fused into a slender column; anthers 3–4, adnate to the column. Female flower perianth as in male; stigma sessile.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruits clustered on a shortly-stalked receptacle, pedicellate, ovoid, with a thick cartilaginous pericarp, dehiscent, the suture sometimes raised into a low ridge; pericarp thickly woody-crustaceous in mature fruits.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds ellipsoid; aril ± lobed at the apex, or cupular and entire; endosperm not ruminate.
[FTEA]
Myristicaceae, Bernard Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1997
- Morphology General Habit
- Dioecious or monoecious trees
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves subcoriaceous, petiolate, glabrous, with 5–10 pairs of lateral nerves
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences subglobose or capitate, dense, sessile or shortly pedunculate; bracts present; bracteoles absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male flowers with perianth ± funnel-shaped, 3–4-lobed; anthers 3–4, joined into a column slightly exceeding the joined filaments Female flowers with perianth subglobose, 3–4-lobed; ovary globose; stigma sessile, indistinct
- sex Male
- Male flowers with perianth ± funnel-shaped, 3–4-lobed; anthers 3–4, joined into a column slightly exceeding the joined filaments
- sex Female
- Female flowers with perianth subglobose, 3–4-lobed; ovary globose; stigma sessile, indistinct
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruits with fleshy pericarp, eventually splitting into 2 valves
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seed woody, ovoid or oblong-ellipsoid, with aril entire or only lobed at apex; endosperm hard, oily and starchy, not ruminate.
Native to:
Angola, Burundi, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Is., Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre
Staudtia Warb. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 128 (1897)
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: 164.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Kühn & Kubitzki, Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 2: 464 (1993).
- in Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. German. Nat. Cur. 68: 128 (1897).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Kühn & Kubitzki in Kubitzki et al., Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 2: 464 (1993)
- in Nova Acta Acad. Leop.-Carol. 68: 128 (1897)
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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