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Elaeocarpus

Burm. ex L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Oxalidales Family: Elaeocarpaceae Genus: Elaeocarpus

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees or shrubs.

Stems: Pubescent.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, sometimes crowded toward the tips of the branches. Blades often coriaceous. Margins usually crenate or serrate. Petiolate. Stipules caducous.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary racemes. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx of 4–5 sepals; sepals distinct or connate at base. Corolla of 4–5 petals, fimbriate, lobed, or dentate at apex. Stamens 10 to numerous, distinct, inserted within a 4–5-lobed disk; anthers dithecal, opening by terminal pores or short transverse slits. Ovary superior, (1)2–7-celled, placentation axile; ovules 2 to numerous per cell, anatropous; style filiform or subulate.

Fruit: Fruit drupaceous; mesocarp fleshy or fibrous; endocarp bony or sometimes fibrous. Seeds 1–7 per fruit; with copious oily and proteinaceous endosperm; without an aril.

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

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Natural History

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 515 (1753)

Occurrences

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