The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerogramsThonner, Franz
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The flowering plants of Africa: An analytical key to the genera of African phanerograms
Thonner, Franz
Angiosperms -- Africa; Plants -- Africa
107. Disc in the male flowers consisting of 5 scales, in the female
cup-shaped, entire. Stamens 5. Fruit one-seeded.--Species 4. West
Africa and Upper Nile. =Maesobotrya= Benth.
Disc, especially in the female flowers, little developed or absent.
Styles shortly lobed. Fruit several-seeded.--Species 10. West Africa.
=Baccaurea= Lour.
108. Disc indistinct or wanting. Styles short, very shortly lobed. (See
107.) =Baccaurea= Lour.
Disc distinctly developed. Stamens 4-5. 109
109. Disc entire or nearly so. Styles undivided, united high up.
Rudimentary pistil salver-shaped. Shrubs.--Species 1. Equatorial
regions. =Baccaureopsis= Pax
Disc lobed or divided. Styles more or less deeply two-cleft. 110
110. Stem herbaceous or woody at the base only. Stipules hair-like.
Flowers very small. Rudimentary pistil salver-shaped. Styles free,
thick, 2-cleft.--Species 5. Central Africa. =Cyathogyne= Muell. Arg.
Stem woody. Rudimentary pistil not salver-shaped. 111
111. Stipules large, kidney-shaped. Inflorescence springing from
the old wood. Seeds with an aril.--Species 5. West Africa. (Under
_Maesobotrya_ Benth.) =Staphysora= Pierre
Stipules not kidney-shaped. Flowers 5-merous. Anther-halves at first
suspended from the thickened connective. Styles long. (See 94.)
=Thecacoris= Juss.
112. (100.) Styles or sessile stigmas much broadened, sometimes wholly
united. Flowers dioecious. Disc present. Fruit indehiscent. Trees or
shrubs. [Subtribe DRYPETINAE.] 113
Styles or style-branches rather thin or broadened at the apex only.
[Subtribe PHYLLANTHINAE.] 115
113. Stamens 3. Ovary 1-celled. Stigmas peltate, nearly sessile. Disc
cup-shaped in the male flowers, ring-shaped in the female. Sepals
unequal.--Species 1. West Africa. =Sibangea= Oliv.
Stamens 4 or more. 114
114. Fruit 1-seeded. Ovary 1-2-celled. Stamens usually 4.--Species 4.
Central Africa. =Drypetes= Vahl
Fruit 2-4-seeded. Ovary 2-4-celled. Stamens usually numerous.--Species
20. Tropical and South Africa. =Cyclostemon= Blume
115. Male flowers with a rudimentary pistil and a disc usually divided
into glands. 116
Male flowers without a rudimentary pistil. 120
116. Receptacle of the male flowers prolonged into an androphore.
Stamens 5-6. Shrubs, undershrubs, or herbs. 117 Receptacle not
prolonged into an androphore. Disc of the male flowers divided into
glands alternating with the sepals, rarely entire. Seeds without an
outgrowth at the hilum. Shrubs and trees. 118
117. Disc of the male flowers nearly entire, of the female
divided into 5 glands alternating with the sepals. Fruit a drupe.
Seeds with an outgrowth at the hilum. Shrubs. Male inflorescence
many-flowered.--Species 3. Central Africa. =Pseudolachnostylis= Pax
Disc of the male flowers 5-lobed or divided into 5 glands opposite
the sepals. Fruit a capsule. Seeds without an outgrowth at the
hilum. Flowers monoecious, fascicled.--Species 4. Central Africa.
=Cluytiandra= Muell. Arg.
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