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Conocarpus

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Myrtales Family: Combretaceae Genus: Conocarpus

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or small trees.

Stems: Stems erect to prostrate, glabrous to densely silky tomentose.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Base with raised basal glands. Margins entire. Petiolate or sessile. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers small, densely clustered in globose heads arranged in terminal panicles or racemes, bracts ovate. Flowers bisexual (perfect) hypanthium campanulate, the lower part laterally flattened, ± winged. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 5(10). Ovary inferior, clearly flattened; style straight to slightly curved, free from hypanthium, with well-developed pistillode; ovules 2.

Fruit: Fruit scale-like; coriaceous; obcordate; laterally compressed and 2–winged. Seeds 1 per fruit; endosperm absent.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 147 (1753)

Occurrences

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