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Magnoliopsida
Margaritaria L. f.
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Dioecious, rarely monoecious, trees or shrubs. Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple, entire. Flowers axillary; the male usually several, fasciculate; females 1-3 per axil. Male flowers: pedicels capillary; calyx lobes 4, imbricate; petals 0; disk annular, ± entire; stamens 4; pistillode 0. Female flowers: pedicels shorter than male; calyx lobes, petals and disk as for male flowers; ovary (2-)3-4(-5)-locular; ovules 2 per loculus; styles free or 2-fid. Fruit (2-)3-4(-5)-lobed, irregularly dehiscent or ± indehiscent. Seeds hemispheric, 2 per loculus; fleshy outer seed coating present, bluish.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:36
Specimens with Sequences:35
Specimens with Barcodes:34
Species:9
Species With Barcodes:9
Public Records:10
Public Species:7
Public BINs:0
Margaritaria is a plant genus of the Phyllanthaceae family first published as a genus in 1782.[3][4] It is the smallest pantropical genus of the Phyllanthaceae and, formerly, of the Euphorbiaceae, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America, and various oceanic islands.[2][5]
- Species[2]
- Margaritaria anomala - Aldabra, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius
- Margaritaria cyanosperma - Sri Lanka
- Margaritaria decaryana - S Madagascar
- Margaritaria discoidea - Sub-Saharan Africa
- Margaritaria dubium-traceyi - N Queensland
- Margaritaria hispidula - SW Madagascar
- Margaritaria hotteana - Hispaniola
- Margaritaria indica - SE Asia, S China, India, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Queensland
- Margaritaria luzoniensis - Luzon
- Margaritaria nobilis- Mexico, Central America, South America, West Indies
- Margaritaria rhomboidalis - Madagascar
- Margaritaria scandens - Bahamas, Cuba
- Margaritaria tetracocca - Cuba, Haiti
References[edit]
- ^ Tropicos, Margaritaria L.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Linnaeus, Carl von Jr. 1782. Supplementum Plantarum 66-67, 428.
- ^ Tropicos, Margaritaria L.f.
- ^ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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