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(Last Modified On 3/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/22/2013)
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Genus
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Schinus L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. PI. 388, 1753
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Reference
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Gen. PI. ed. 5, 184, 1754.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple or compound (the rachis often winged), the leaflets typically sessile or subsessile. Inflorescences paniculate, terminal or axillary, oo-flowered. Flowers small, usually c' 9 (at least functionally), the pedicels articulated; sepals 4-5, often ciliate marginally; petals 4-5, imbricate at anthesis, usually glabrous; stamens 8-10, those alternate with the petals almost as long as the petals in ' flowers, those opposite the petals ca I2 as long, all greatly reduced in 9 flowers; disc cupular, not tumid, 8-10 crenulate; ovary unilocular, the solitary ovule suspended variously from near the middle to near the apex of the locule, the styles terminal, 3 or occasionally single, the stigmas 3. Fruit a small drupe as broad as long, the exocarp thin, lustrous, usually lavender or red, deciduous, the endocarp bony; seed compressed.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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A genus of about 27 species native to South America; one species, possibly native, extends through Central America into Mexico. Several species are cultivated as ornamentals in tropic and warm-temperate regions of the New and Old World.
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Reference
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Barkley F. A., Schinus L. Brittonia 5: 160-198, 1944.
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Key
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a. Leaves with 1-6 pairs of opposite leaflets; lamina of leaflets various but not narrowly lanceolate, with a length/width ratio of 1.3/1 to 3/1; style 1, the stigmas 3; ovule subapical --------------------1. S. terebinthifolius aa. Leaves with 7-20 pairs of leaflets (often some of the leaflets alternate); lamina of leaflets rather narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, having a length/ width ratio of 4/1 to 16/1; styles 3, free or confluent only at the base; ovule attached laterally to the ovary wall just above the middle of the locule ... 2. S. molle
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