Flora of North America species comparison

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Adelia

wild lime
Habit Shrubs [trees], unarmed or branchlets sometimes stiff and thorn-tipped, dioecious [monoecious], hairs unbranched; latex absent.
Leaves

deciduous, fascicled on short shoots [alternate], simple;

stipules present, deciduous;

petiole present, glands absent;

blade unlobed, margins entire [crenate], laminar glands absent;

venation palmate at base and pinnate distally [pinnate].
Inflorescences

unisexual [bisexual], axillary, fascicles [racemes] or flowers solitary;

bracts subtending pistillate flowers minute, not enlarging in fruit;

glands subtending each bract 0.
Pedicels

present.
Staminate flowers

sepals [4–]5, not petaloid, 2[–5] mm, valvate, distinct;

petals 0;

nectary extrastaminal, annular [5 glands], adnate to calyx;

stamens [6–-]14–17[–30], connate basally [distinct];

pistillode present [absent].
Pistillate flowers

sepals 5(–6)[–7], distinct;

petals 0;

nectary annular;

pistil (2–)3(–4)–carpellate;

styles (2–)3(–4), distinct [connate basally], deeply multifid.
Fruits

capsules.
Seeds

subglobose;

caruncle absent.

Adelia
Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; tropical and subtropical regions
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Discussion

Species 9 (1 in the flora).

Phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular data support Adelia as a monophyletic group sister to the Caribbean genera Lasiocroton Grisebach and Leucocroton Grisebach (De-Nova and V. Sosa 2007). Three principal lineages were recognized in Adelia: the first includes only A. cinerea (Wiggins & Rollins) A. Cervantes, V. W. Steinmann & Flores Olvera, a species endemic to Mexico; the second includes four Mexican species (including A. vaseyi); and the third comprises the remaining four species from the West Indies, Central America, and South America.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 12, p. 181. Author: J. Arturo De-Nova.
Parent taxa Euphorbiaceae
Subordinate taxa
A. vaseyi
Name authority Linnaeus: Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1285, 1298. (1759) — name conserved
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