- Family: Salicaceae Mirb.
Ludia Comm. ex Juss.
[FTEA]
Flacourtiaceae, H. Sleumer (Rijksherbarium, Leiden). Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1975
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees or shrubs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves persistent, alternate, coriaceous, entire, penninerved, the nerves often steeply ascending, reticulation markedly raised on both faces, petioled, exstipulate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers bisexual, small, solitary, or rarely 2 or 3 together from the same axil, subsessile, subtended by several minute imbricate suborbicular bracts
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals 5 or 6, uniseriate, imbricate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 0
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens indefinite in number, inserted on a flat receptacle, with numerous hairs between the filiform filaments; anthers small; connective generally rather obscure
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Disc
- Disk-glands several, small, along the edge of the receptacle
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary with 2–4 placentas which bear few to numerous ovules; style columnar, often ± deeply 3-lobed or -partite distally
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit baccate, hardly or tardily and irregularly dehiscent; pericarp coriaceous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds few; testa hard.
Native to:
Aldabra, Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Tanzania
- Ludia ankaranensis Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia antanosarum Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia arborea H.Perrier
- Ludia boinensis H.Perrier
- Ludia brevipes Sleumer
- Ludia chapelieri Sleumer
- Ludia comorensis H.Perrier
- Ludia craggiana Z.S.Rogers, Randrian. & J.S.Mill.
- Ludia dracaenoides H.Perrier
- Ludia erosifolia Sleumer
- Ludia faradifani Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia glaucocarpa Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia ikongoensis Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia imontiensis Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia leandriana Sleumer
- Ludia ludiifolia (H.Perrier) Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia madagascariensis Clos
- Ludia mauritiana J.F.Gmel.
- Ludia myrtoides Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia pachyadenia Sleumer
- Ludia pinnatinervia (H.Perrier) Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia scolopioides Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia sessilis Sleumer
- Ludia suarezensis Capuron & Sleumer
- Ludia wikstroemiifolia Sleumer
Ludia Comm. ex Juss. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Gen. Pl.: 343 (1789)
Literature
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Sleumer in Adansonia, sér. 2, 12: 79 (1972)
- Gen.: 343 (1789)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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