- Family: Achariaceae Harms
Grandidiera Jaub.
This genus is accepted, and its native range is SE. Kenya to Mozambique.
Descriptions
According to Flora of Tropical East Africa
[FTEA]Flacourtiaceae, H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1975
- Habit
- Shrubs or trees
- Leaves
- Leaves persistent, alternate, petiolate, entire or undulate, penninerved, stipulate
- Flowers
- Flowers in short axillary spike-like racemes; pedicels articulate at the base, elongate in the terminal bisexual flower, short in the lower ♂ ones; subtending bracts several, membranous, small Hermaphrodite flowers: sepals and petals as in the ♂ ones, though slightly larger; stamens less numerous (35–50); ovary unilocular, sessile, with 2–4 multi-ovulate placentas, shortly 4.6(–8)-winged; style short; stigmas (2–)3(–4), divergent, reflexed Male flowers: stamens numerous; filaments filiform; anthers subovate-oblong, dorsifixed near the base, longitudinally dehiscent; rudiment of ovary 0
- Calyx
- Sepals 3, imbricate, small
- Corolla
- Petals 5–7, imbricate, small
- Male
- Male flowers: stamens numerous; filaments filiform; anthers subovate-oblong, dorsifixed near the base, longitudinally dehiscent; rudiment of ovary 0
- Hermaphrodite
- Hermaphrodite flowers: sepals and petals as in the ♂ ones, though slightly larger; stamens less numerous (35–50); ovary unilocular, sessile, with 2–4 multi-ovulate placentas, shortly 4.6(–8)-winged; style short; stigmas (2–)3(–4), divergent, reflexed
- Fruits
- Fruit globular, woody, tardily dehiscent, with 4–6 (–8) short membranous crenate wings
- Seeds
- Seeds numerous, ovoid, small.
Distribution
Accepted Species
Other Data
Grandidiera Jaub. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 13: 467 (1866)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Gilg in E. & P. Pf., ed. 2, 21: 399, fig. 170 (1925)
- in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 13: 467 (1866)
Sources
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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