Alvaradoa amorphoides |
Picramniaceae |
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Mexican alvaradoa |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees, rarely subshrubs, dioecious. | |
Stems | usually single, wood dense. |
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Leaves | usually persistent, cauline, alternate, imparipinnately compound; stipules absent; petiole present; blade usually chartaceous, margins entire, leaflets alternate or subopposite (often darkening upon drying), bases of lateral leaflets often oblique. |
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Inflorescences | terminal or lateral, simple racemes (either of separate flowers or glomerules of flowers), pendent, or compound thyrses. |
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Flowers | unisexual, perianth and androecium hypogynous; epicalyx bractlet absent; hypanthium absent; sepals [3–]5, basally connate or distinct; petals [3–]5, sometimes 0, distinct, stramineous to maroon or red, usually ligulate; stamens or staminodia (if present) (3–)5, distinct, antipetalous, anthers longitudinally dehiscent; staminate flowers: (filaments unappendaged) intrastaminal discs or, rarely, column present, pistillodia usually conic and hairy or vestigial; pistillate flowers: staminodia present or absent; pistils 1, 2–3(–4)-carpellate, ovary borne on disc or gynophore, placentation apical, styles 2–3(–4), usually ± lacking, stigmas sessile and divergent on apices of ovaries; ovules 2 or 3 per locule. |
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Fruits | berries or samaras; sepals often persistent; stigmas persistent. |
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Seeds | 1, not arillate. |
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Alvaradoa amorphoides |
Picramniaceae |
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Distribution |
FL; Mexico; Central America; West Indies
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FL; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies |
Discussion | Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora). Subspecies amorphoides is found in Mexico, West Indies (Grand Cayman), and Central America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Genera 3, species 52 (2 genera, 2 species in the flora). The length of the pedicel is taken from fruiting material for Alvaradoa and Picramnia. The third genus, Nothotalisia W. W. Thomas, is known from Panama and northwestern South America with three species. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Key | ||
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 4. | FNA vol. 9, p. 3. |
Parent taxa | Picramniaceae > Alvaradoa | |
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Name authority | Liebmann: Vidensk. Meddel. Dansk Naturhist. Foren. Kjøbenhavn 1853: 101. (1854) | Fernando & Quinn |
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