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1. Carissa Linnaeus, Mant. Pl. 1: 52. 1767.
[nom. cons.]
假虎刺属 jia hu ci shu
Shrubs, climbers, or small trees, mostly spiny. Branches dichotomous. Leaves opposite; petiole 2-3 mm. Cymes terminal or axillary, dichotomous, pedunculate, usually many flowered. Flowers 5- [or 4]-merous. Calyx without glands or rarely with many basal glands inside. Corolla salverform, tube cylindric, dilated at staminal insertion, lobes overlapping to left or to right. Stamens included in throat; anthers lanceolate, obtuse or apiculate, base not appendaged; disc absent. Ovary 2-loculed; ovules 1-4 in each locule, rarely numerous, biseriate. Style filiform; pistil head narrowly oblong or fusiform, apex shortly 2-cleft. Berries 1- or 2-loculed. Seeds 2 or more, peltate; endosperm fleshy; cotyledons ovate, radicle inferior.
About 30 species: tropics and subtropics of Africa, Asia, and Australia; four species in China.
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Corolla lobes overlapping to left, as long as or longer than tube |
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1 Carissa macrocarpa |
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Corolla lobes overlapping to right, shorter than tube. |
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Lateral veins of leaf blade ca. 8 pairs; corolla puberulent inside; fruit ellipsoid, 1.5-2.5 1-2 cm |
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4 Carissa carandas |
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Lateral veins of leaf blade 3-5 pairs; corolla glabrous or pubescent inside; fruit globose, 0.5-1.2 cm in diam. |
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Secondary veins conspicuous on adaxial leaf surface; branches and abaxial leaf surface puberulent |
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3 Carissa spinarum |
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Secondary veins of leaf blade inconspicuous; branchlets and leaves glabrous in plants introduced into China |
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2 Carissa edulis |
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Lower Taxa
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