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Terminalia

L. (1767)

This name is accepted

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

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees or rarely shrubs, often buttressed.

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Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, often crowded toward the tips of the branches. Surfaces often glandular punctate and with domatia, with 2 or more glands at base of blade or on petiole. Margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers usually in axillary spikes, staminate flowers toward apex and perfect flowers toward base of spike. Flowers bisexual (perfect) and unisexual (the plants polygamodioecious). Hypanthium of bisexual (perfect) flowers narrowed just above ovary. Calyx (4)5-lobed, the lobes deltate or ovate. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens usually 10, exserted. Ovary inferior, terete (cylindrical), straight to slightly curved; style ± straight, free from hypanthium, pistillode absent in staminate flowers; ovules 2 or 3.

Fruit: Fruit drupaceous; sometimes dry and leathery or corky; ovoid to ellipsoid; compressed or winged; flesh of mesocarp mixed with tough fibers. Seeds 1 per fruit; woody or bony; often enclosed by the persistent mesocarp fibers.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Mant. Pl.: 21 (1767)

Occurrences

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