Aphananthe
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Description
Monoecious, deciduous or semideciduous shrubs or trees, often buttressed.
Leaves alternate, petioled, glabrous, coriaceous, triplinerved at base or pinnately nerved.
Stipules lateral, extrapetiolar, subulate, caducous.
Inflorescences ♂, ♀, or very rarely ♂♀, axillary;
Seed exalbuminous, coat membranous, few cells thick;
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Hainan (Hainan present); Korea present; Taiwan (Taiwan present), Asia-Tropical: India present; Malaya absent; Maluku (Maluku absent); Thailand (Thailand present), Australasia: New South Wales (New South Wales present); Queensland (Queensland present), Burma present, Ceylon present, Hongkong present, Japan present, Madagascar present, Northern America, Solomons present
About 4-5 spp. Mexico, Madagascar, Ceylon, India, Burma, China (also Hainan), Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hongkong, Indo-China, Thailand, Andamans, through Malesia to Australia (Queensland and New South Wales) and Solomons. Throughout Malesia (except Malaya and Moluccas): 2 spp. .
Citation
GAGNEP. 1927 – In: Fl. Gen. I.-C.: 690
PLANCH 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 207
ENGL 1888 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam., ed. 3, 1: 66
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 218
PLANCH. 1952 – In: Fl. Madag. Fam.: 12
HUTCH. 1967 – In: Gen. Fl. Pl.: 149
Li 1963: Woody Fl. Taiwan: 105
Hook.f. 1880 – In: B. & H., Gen. Pl. 3: 355
Miq. 1859 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 223
PLANCH. 1961 – In: J. Agr. Trop. Bot. Appl.: 72
BERNARD 1906 – In: Bull. Herb. Boiss.: 34
ENGL 1888 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam., ed. 3, 1: 66
LEROY 1946 – In: Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris: 118, 180