- Family:
- Euphorbiaceae Juss.
Codiaeum Rumph. ex A.Juss.
[FTEA]
Euphorbiaceae, A. R.-Smith. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1987
- Morphology General Habit
- Monoecious or occasionally dioecious shrubs or small trees with or without a simple indumentum
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, petiolate, minutely stipulate or not, simple and entire or occasionally trilobate, sometimes with the lamina recurved, twisted or interrupted, penninerved, eglandular or subeglandular at the base
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences axillary or subterminal, often subtended by a small orbicular leaf, laxly racemose, solitary or sometimes binate, usually unisexual, pedunculate; ♂ bracts 1–6-flowered; ♀ bracts 1-flowered
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male flowers: pedicels slender, articulate; sepals (3–)5(–6), free, imbricate; petals (3–)5(–6), small, minute or 0; disc-glands 5–15, small, free, alternating with the petals; stamens 15–100, filaments free, anthers erect, extrorse, dorsifixed, connective broad, thecae apically confluent, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode 0 Female flowers: pedicels short and stouter than in ♂, not articulate; sepals smaller than in ♂, otherwise ± similar; petals 0; disc shallowly cupular, entire or ± so; ovary 3-locular, with 1 ovule per locule; styles 3, shortly connate at the base, spreading or recurved, simple, rarely bipartite
- sex Male
- Male flowers: pedicels slender, articulate; sepals (3–)5(–6), free, imbricate; petals (3–)5(–6), small, minute or 0; disc-glands 5–15, small, free, alternating with the petals; stamens 15–100, filaments free, anthers erect, extrorse, dorsifixed, connective broad, thecae apically confluent, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode 0
- sex Female
- Female flowers: pedicels short and stouter than in ♂, not articulate; sepals smaller than in ♂, otherwise ± similar; petals 0; disc shallowly cupular, entire or ± so; ovary 3-locular, with 1 ovule per locule; styles 3, shortly connate at the base, spreading or recurved, simple, rarely bipartite
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit globose or tridymous, dehiscing into 3 bivalved cocci
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds smooth, shiny, marbled, carunculate; testa crustaceous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.
[FZ]
Euphorbiaceae, A. Radcliffe-Smith. Flora Zambesiaca 9:4. 1996
- Morphology General Habit
- Monoecious or occasionally dioecious shrubs or small trees with a simple indumentum, or glabrous.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, petiolate, minutely stipulate or stipules absent, simple, entire or 3-lobed, occasionally the lamina contorted or interrupted along the midrib, penninerved, eglandular or ± so.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescences axillary or subterminal, racemose, solitary or paired, usually unisexual, pedunculate; male bracts 1–6-flowered; female bracts l-flowered.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Male flowers: pedicels slender, jointed; sepals (3)5(6), closely imbricate; petals (3)5(6), small, minute or absent; disk glands 5–15, free, alternipetalous; stamens 15–100, filaments free, anthers erect, extrorse, dorsifixed, connective broad, thecae apically confluent, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode absent. Female flowers: pedicels shorter and stouter than in the male, not jointed; sepals smaller than in the male, otherwise ± similar; petals absent; disk shallowly cupular, subentire or shallowly 5-lobed; ovary 3-locular, 1 ovule per locule; styles 3, shortly connate at the base, spreading or recurved, usually simple.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit globose or 3-lobed, dehiscing septicidally into 3 bivalved cocci; pericarp thin; endocarp thinly woody; columella persistent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds ovoid to subglobose, carunculate; testa smooth, shiny, marmorate, crustaceous; albumen fleshy; cotyledons broad, flat.
Native to:
Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Fiji, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Vanuatu
Introduced into:
Bangladesh, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., China South-Central, China Southeast, Comoros, Cook Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, Gambia, Gilbert Is., Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Haiti, Leeward Is., Line Is., Marianas, Marshall Is., Mozambique, Niue, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Society Is., Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Venezuelan Antilles, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is.
- Codiaeum affine Merr.
- Codiaeum bractiferum (Roxb.) Merr.
- Codiaeum ciliatum Merr.
- Codiaeum finisterrae Pax & K.Hoffm.
- Codiaeum hirsutum Merr.
- Codiaeum ludovicianum Airy Shaw
- Codiaeum luzonicum Merr.
- Codiaeum macgregorii Merr.
- Codiaeum megalanthum Merr.
- Codiaeum membranaceum S.Moore
- Codiaeum oligogynum McPherson
- Codiaeum palawanense Elmer
- Codiaeum peltatum (Labill.) P.S.Green
- Codiaeum stellingianum Warb.
- Codiaeum tenerifolium Airy Shaw
- Codiaeum trichocalyx Merr.
- Codiaeum variegatum (L.) Rumph. ex A.Juss.
Codiaeum Rumph. ex A.Juss. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Euphorb. Gen.: 33 (1824)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- Euph. Gen. Tent.: 33, t. 9, f. 30 (1824).
- Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 1116 (1866).
- Pax in Engler, Pflanzenr. [IV, fam. 147, iii] 47: 23 ( 1911), nom. conserv.
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Euphorb. Gen. Tent.: 33, t. 9, fig. 30 (1824)
- G.P. 3(1): 299 (1880)
- Muell. Arg. in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 1116 (1866)
- Pax in E.P. IV. 147(3): 23 (1911), nom. conserv.
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