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Flora Data (Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
Genus Elaeagnia Wedd.
PlaceOfPublication Monogr. Cinch. 94. 1849.
Note TYPE: E. utilis (Goud.) Wedd.
Description Trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, petiolate; stipules free or connate. Info- rescences large, terminal, paniculate or rarely racemose. Flowers small, the ca- lycine cup 5-lobed, inflated, persistent; corolla reduced, infundibuliform, cylin- drical or somewhat bell shaped, the throat villous, the lobes 5, recurved, contorted in bud; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, dorsifixed, the filaments exsert- ed, geniculate at the base; ovarian disc orbicular, the style short, the stigmas 2, obtuse, the ovules numerous, the placentas peltately affixed to the septum. Fruits capsular, small, loculicidally dehiscent into 2 valves, these split apically; seeds minute, the testa membranous.
Habit Trees or shrubs
Distribution a genus of about 15 species, ranges from Central America to South America. It also occurs in Cuba.
Reference Steyermark, J. S. 1965. Botany of the Guayana Highland-Part VI. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 12: 186-192.
Key a. Leaves short pilose beneath; petioles less than 1 cm long; fruits ca. 4.5 mm long ...... 1. E. auriculata aa. Leaves glabrous beneath; petioles 2.0-2.5 cm long; fruits ca. 7 mm long ...... 2. E. nitidifolia
 
 
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