Meliaceae
Turraea

Turraea obtusifolia Hochst.

First published in Flora 27: 296 (1844)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Tropical & S. Africa. It is a shrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Meliaceae, F. White and B. T. Styles. Flora Zambesiaca 2:1. 1963

Morphology General Habit
Shrub up to 3 m. tall, sometimes scrambling; first-year branchlets puberulous with spreading hairs, second-year more sparsely so, reddish-brown or grey.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves mostly in fascicles; lamina very variable in shape and size, up to 5 × 2·5 cm., usually smaller, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, lower surface glabrous, apex subacuminate to emarginate, sometimes shallowly 3-lobed, base decurrent almost to the base of the petiole; petiole very short or absent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence axillary, 1–3-flowered; peduncles 5–8 mm. long; bracts very small, 1 mm. long, subulate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers pure white.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 3–5 mm. long, lobes pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Petals 3–3·6 × 0·5 cm., linear to linear-spathulate, glabrous outside.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Staminal tube 2·5–3·2 cm. long, cylindric, glabrous inside; appendages in pairs, alternating with the anthers, 1·5–2 mm. long, glabrous outside; filaments fused beyond the insertion of the appendages to form a short frill continuing the staminal tube.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Ovary 5-locular, glabrous; style 2·7–3·3 cm. long; style-head broadly obovoid-cylindric, widest at the apex, exserted up to 3 mm. beyond the base of the staminal appendages.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule 5 × 10–13 mm., depressed-globose, shallowly sulcate, leathery, glabrous; aril vestigial, confined to the adaxial surface; testa red.
[FZ]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/146442315/146442317

Conservation
LC - least concern
[IUCN]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

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