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5. Microcos Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 514. 1753.
破布叶属 po bu ye shu
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate; leaf blade ovate, oblong, or lanceolate, leathery, basal veins 3, margin entire or lobed in distal 1/2. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymose paniculate. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5, free. Petals 5 or rarely absent, glandular at base adaxially. Stamens many, free, borne distally on androgynophore. Ovary superior, usually 3-loculed; ovules 4-7 per locule; style simple; stigma subulate, usually not lobed. Fruit a drupe, globose, obovoid, or pyriform, not furrowed, without drupelets.
About 60 species: primarily in Africa, Asia; three species in China.
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Mature leaf blade tomentose abaxially, apex acute. |
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3 M. stauntoniana |
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Mature leaf blade glabrescent or nearly so abaxially, apex acuminate |
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Ovary glabrous; leaf blade ovate-oblong; sepals 5-7 mm. |
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1 M. paniculata |
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Ovary densely villous; leaf blade oblong or lanceolate; sepals 8-10 mm. |
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2 M. chungii |
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Lower Taxa
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