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(Last Modified On 8/15/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/15/2013)
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Genus
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Leucocarpus D. Don
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. 11, tab. 124. 1830.
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Note
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TYPE: L. alatus D. Don = L. perfoliatus (H.B.K.) Benth.
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Description
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Robust herbs, glabrate, stems stout, strongly 4-angled or winged. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, denticulate, basally auriculate and appearing connate per- foliate, sessile but the basal part of the lamina contracted to appear petiolar. Inflorescences short pedunculate axillary cymes, the peduncle short, the flowers in several many-flowered clusters, the bracts small, narrow, subtending the pedicels and the inflorescence branches. Flowers with the calyx narrowly cam- panulate, 5-dentate, costate; corolla tubular campanulate, the 4 crenate lobes similar, glabrous outside, pubescent at the mouth within; stamens 4, alike, the 2 thecae basally divergent, staminode wanting; stigma 2-lamellate, situated just below the anthers. Fruit a white fleshy berry, 10 cm across, faintly bisulcate, the style persistent or leaving a beak; seeds numerous, minute, subglobose, reticulate.
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Habit
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herbs
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Distribution
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Leucocarpus is a monotypic genus of mainland tropical America.
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Note
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It is distinctive in its robust stature, pedunculate cymose inflorescences, and baccate fruits.
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