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Triadica

Chinese tallow, tallowtree
Habit Trees, monoecious; hairs absent; latex white.
Leaves

deciduous, alternate, simple;

stipules present, persistent;

petiole present, glands present at apex;

blade unlobed, margins entire, laminar glands abaxial, submarginal, occasionally absent on some leaves;

venation pinnate.
Inflorescences

bisexual (pistillate flowers proximal, staminate distal) or staminate, terminal and subterminal (in axils of branch-tip leaves), racemelike thyrses;

glands subtending each bract 2.
Pedicels

present.
Staminate flowers

sepals 3, apparently imbricate, connate most of length;

petals 0;

nectary absent;

stamens 2–3, distinct;

pistillode absent.
Pistillate flowers

sepals 3, distinct or connate basally;

petals 0;

nectary absent;

pistil 3-carpellate;

styles 3, connate 1/2–2/3 length, unbranched.
Fruits

capsules.
Seeds

ovoid with ventral face distinctly flattened or angled;

outer seed coat fleshy;

caruncle absent.
x

= 11.

Triadica
Distribution
from USDA
Asia [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 3 (1 in the flora).

Although classified historically in Sapium sect. Triadica, Triadica is distinct based on morphology and molecular phylogenetic evidence (K. Wurdack et al. 2005).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 12, p. 226. Author: Kenneth J. Wurdack.
Parent taxa Euphorbiaceae
Subordinate taxa
T. sebifera
Name authority Loureiro: Fl. Cochinch. 2: 598, 610. (1790)
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