Antiaris

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Antiaris

Description

Trees, monoecious or dioecious. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, more or less hairy, margin subentire to denticulate; stipules semi-amplexicaul, free. Inflorescences on short-shoots in the axils of the leaves or below the leaves, with 1 or 2 pistillate inflorescences (on the lower nodes of the short-shoot) and/or up to c. 8 staminate ones. flowers 1, occasionally 2; flowers many, with 2-7 free tepals; stamens 2-4, straight before anthesis, anthers latrorse to extrorse; ovary adnate to the embedded part of the perianth;

Distribution

Madagascar present, Yemen present, continental tropical Africa present, from Sri Lanka to Tonga present
The genus comprises a single very variable species, occurring in continental tropical Africa, Yemen, Madagascar, and from Sri Lanka to Tonga.

Citation

Lesch. 1915: p. 33. – In: Welt Afr.: f. 20
C.C. Berg 1977 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg.: 308
C.C. Berg 1978 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg.: 466
Engl. in Engl. & Prantl 1888 – In: Nat. Pflanzenfam.: 85
Blume 1836 – In: Rumphia: 56
Endl. 1837: Gen. Pl.: 280
Lesch. 1902 – In: Bot. Jahrb. Syst.: 119
Hutch. 1917 – In: Fl. Trop. Afr.: 223
Leandri 1952: p. 30. – In: Fl. Madagasc. fam.: f. vi
Baill. 1875 – In: Hist. Pl.: 203
R.Br. in Flinders 1814: Voy. Terra Austral.: 602
Benth. & Hook.f. 1880 – In: Gen. Pl.: 371
Corner 1962 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 19: 244
Trécul 1847: p. 142. – In: Ann. Sci. Nat.: f. 158-162