Drypetes
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4605886 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/145CDB52-FFE6-EA51-FEEC-D1278EEBD871 |
treatment provided by |
Carolina |
scientific name |
Drypetes |
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Key to species of Drypetes View in CoL in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands
1. Leaves opposite or subopposite ........................................................................................ D. oppositifolia View in CoL
1’. Leaves alternate ........................................................................................................................................ 2
2. Stipules persistent, 3-9 mm long, 1.5-4 mm wide at base ...................................................... D. stipulacea View in CoL
2’. Stipules caducous or persistent, 0.5-2(-5) mm long (if over 2 mm long, then less than 1 mm wide at base)
3. Specimen pistillate .................................................................................................................................... 4
3’. Specimen staminate ................................................................................................................................ 12
4. Ovary 2-locular; styles 2 .......................................................................................................................... 5
4’. Ovary 3-6-locular; styles 3-6 .................................................................................................................... 9
5. Sepals 5 (rarely -6), persistent; leaves spiny-dentate or entire .................................................................... 6
5’. Sepals 4, caducous or persistent; leaves shallowly dentate or entire ............................................................ 7
6. Petioles glabrous; fruiting pedicels 5-10 mm; leaves spiny-dentate or entire; Madagascar............................ .................................................................................................................................. D. madagascariensis View in CoL
6’. Petioles pubescent (sometimes obscurely so); fruiting pedicels 3-4 mm; leaves entire; Mayotte. D. darcyana View in CoL
7. Disk conspicuously pubescent; leaf blade length at least 3 times width .................................... D. ambigua View in CoL
7’. Disk glabrous (or sometimes obscurely pubescent in narrow ring at base of ovary); leaf blade length less than 3 times width ............................................................................................................................................ 8
8. Leaf blades 10-17 cm long, 4-8 cm wide; fruit 20-22 mm long; eastern forests ...................... D. thouarsii View in CoL
8’. Leaf blades mostly 5-9 cm long, rarely up to 13 cm long, 1.5-4(-6) cm wide; fruit 10-15 mm long; widespread .................................................................................................................................................. D. perrieri View in CoL
9. Sepals 5; Comoro Islands.................................................................................................... D. comorensis View in CoL
9’. Sepals 3; Madagascar.............................................................................................................................. 10
10. Fruit lobed on drying, often somewhat obconic; pedicels (2-) 5-18 mm; leaves often spiny-dentate but some times entire; stipules at least 1 mm long, broadly triangular ...................................................... D. bathiei View in CoL
10’. Fruit unlobed, spherical (unknown in D. thouarsiana ); pedicels 1-3 mm (unknown in D. thouarsiana ); leaves entire; stipules if over 1 mm long, then narrowly triangular .......................................................... 11
11. Stipules narrowly triangular, 1-4 mm long; leaf blades 2.5-8 cm long ................................ D. thouarsiana
11’. Stipules deltoid, less than 1 mm long; leaf blades (5-) 7-18 cm long ...................................... D. capuronii View in CoL
12. Sepals 5 .................................................................................................................................................. 13
12’. Sepals 3-4 .............................................................................................................................................. 15
13. Stamens 3 (rarely -4); Madagascar............................................................................ D. madagascariensis View in CoL
13’. Stamens 7-15; Comoro Islands.............................................................................................................. 14
14. Stamens ca. 15; leaves dentate ............................................................................................ D. comorensis View in CoL
14’. Stamens ca. 7; leaves entire .................................................................................................... D. darcyana View in CoL
15. Sepals 3 (occasionally mixed with flowers with 4 sepals); flowers borne on trunk or on branches (mostly in the axils of fallen leaves) .......................................................................................................................... 16
15’. Sepals 4; flowers usually in leafy axils ...................................................................................................... 18
16. Stamens (4-)5-7(-8); stipules 1-4 mm long, narrowly triangular; leaf blades 2.5-8 cm long. D. thouarsiana
16’. Stamens 8-16; stipules up to 2 mm long, broadly triangular; leaf blades (5-) 7-18 cm long ...................... 17
17. Stipules 1-2 mm long; leaves entire or spiny-dentate; pedicels at anthesis (2-) 8-17 mm long; stamens 8-12; widespread ................................................................................................................................ D. bathiei View in CoL
17’. Stipules less than 1 mm long; leaves entire; pedicels at anthesis 3-6 mm long; stamens 12-16; Masoala Peninsula and NE Madagascar.............................................................................................. D. capuronii View in CoL
18. Leaf blade length at least 3 times width; stamens 8 .................................................................. D. ambigua View in CoL
18’. Leaf blade length less than 3 times width; stamens 4 .............................................................................. 19
19. Leaves 10-17 cm long, 4-8 cm wide; bracteate bud clusters ca. 8 mm in diam.; eastern forests. D. thouarsii View in CoL
19’. Leaves mostly 5-9 cm long, rarely up to 13 cm long, 2.5-5(-6) cm wide; bracteate bud clusters ca. 4 mm in diam.; widespread .................................................................................................................... D. perrieri View in CoL
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