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12. Salacia Linnaeus, Mant. Pl. 2: 159. 1771.

五层龙属 wu ceng long shu

Authors: Hua Peng & Michele Funston

Courondi Adanson.

Climbing or scrambling shrubs or small trees, glabrous or glabrescent; branchlets subterete, internode usually dilated or slightly flat. Leaves opposite to subopposite, rarely alternate, entire, crenate, or serrate, estipulate. Inflorescences axillary or cauliflorous, thyrsoid, cymose, or fasciculate. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous. Disk fleshy, pulvinate or cupular, entire or lobed, extrastaminal. Stamens (2 or)3; anthers longitudinally, obliquely, or transversely dehiscent, extrorse or apical. Ovary (2 or)3-locular, whole or mostly concealed in disk; ovules axile, 2-9 per locule. Berry spheroid, fleshy or subligneous. Seeds 2-12, angular, exalbuminous, surrounded by mucilaginous arils.

About 200 species: chiefly in tropical regions; ten species (eight endemic) in China.


1 Berry usually up to 2 cm in diam.; leaf blade small, 5-11 × 2-5 cm   (2)
+ Berry 2-5 cm in diam.; leaf blade large, (8-)10-25 × 4-10 cm   (3)
       
2 (1) Leaf blade entire; axillary or terminal cymes, many flowered, peduncle 4-7 mm; berry ca. 1.6 cm in diam   9 S. confertiflora
+ Leaf blade sinuate; axillary fascicles, 3-6-flowered, peduncle absent; berry ca. 1 cm in diam..   10 S. chinensis
       
3 (1) Flowers many, fasciculate, peduncle ca. 1 cm   (4)
+ Flowers many or few, fasciculate, peduncle absent   (5)
       
4 (3) Leaf blade oblong or oblong-elliptic, abaxially not glaucous.   1 S. polysperma
+ Leaf blade ovate to narrowly ovate, abaxially glaucous.   2 S. glaucifolia
       
5 (3) Leaf blade margin entire   (6)
+ Leaf blade margin subentire to denticulate or serrulate   (8)
       
6 (5) Leaf blade lanceolate.   3 S. cochinchinensis
+ Leaf blade obovate-elliptic or oblong-elliptic   (7)
       
7 (6) Leaf blade obovate-elliptic, 15-20 × 7-11 cm; flowers 3 or 4, axillary or extra-axillary; sepal margin ciliolate.   4 S. obovatilimba
+ Leaf blade oblong-elliptic, 12-17 × 5-7.5 cm; flowers many, axillary; sepal margin membranous.   5 S. hainanensis
       
8 (5) Branches slender, smooth, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate; leaf blade papery.   8 S. aurantiaca
+ Branches robust, densely lenticellate; leaf blade leathery or subleathery   (9)
       
9 (8) Leaf blade narrowly or broadly oblong-elliptic, 13-23 × 6-8 cm; flowers many, pedicel 8-9 mm; berry up to 4.5 cm in diam..   6 S. amplifolia
+ Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 10-15 × 3.5-5 cm; flowers 3 or 4, pedicel ca. 1 mm; berry commonly 2-2.5 cm in diam..   7 S. sessiliflora

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