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1. Cordia Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 190. 1753.
破布木属 po bu mu shu
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, usually evidently petiolate, margin entire or serrate, rarely lobed. Cymes mostly corymbose, ebracteate. Flowers bisexual, frequently heterostylous or ± functionally unisexual. Calyx tubular or campanulate, enlarged after anthesis, persistent. Corolla white, yellow, or orange-red, campanulate to funnelform, usually (4- or) 5(-8)-lobed; lobes antrorse or recurved. Stamens usually well developed; filaments often pubescent at base. Ovary 4-loculed, glabrous; ovule 1 per locule. Style twice 2-cleft, each branch with a spatulate or capitate stigma. Drupes ovoid, globose, or ellipsoid, frequently with watery or sticky fleshy mesocarp and bony endocarp, rarely with corky mesocarp or nutlike without fleshy mesocarp. Seeds 1-4, without endosperm; cotyledons plicate.
About 325 species: mostly in tropics of North and South America, poorly represented in Africa and Asia; five species in China.
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Corolla orange, more than 3 cm; mesocarp corky, fruit enclosed by accrescent tubular calyx |
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1 Cordia subcordata |
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Corolla white or pale yellow, less than 2 cm; mesocarp mucilaginous to watery, sticky, fleshy, fruit subtended but not enclosed by persistent cupular calyx. |
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Calyx with prominent longitudinal veins |
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2 Cordia kanehirai |
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Calyx without longitudinal veins. |
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Leaf blade densely pubescent abaxially; cymes terminal, extra-axillary |
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3 Cordia furcans |
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Leaf blade glabrous abaxially or only veins and vein axils pubescent; inflorescences at apices of leafy lateral branches. |
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Leaf blade oblong to ovate; calyx lobes irregularly angular; inflorescences crowded in glomerules |
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4 Cordia cochinchinensis |
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Leaf blade ovate to elliptic; margin of calyx somewhat undulate; inflorescences widely spaced, in flat-topped cymes |
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5 Cordia dichotoma |
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Lower Taxa
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