Wrightia
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Description
Shrubs or small trees.
Leaves opposite;
Inflorescence a terminal cyme;
Sepals with 5 large or small colleters in the sinuses inside, the larger ones almost covering the inner surface of the sepals.
Stamens inserted at corolla mouth or in tube;
Fruit of paired follicles or connate follicles;
Seeds linear or narrowly fusiform;
Distribution
Africa present, Asia present, Asia-Tropical, Australasia
Approximately 25 species in Africa, Asia and Australia; in Malesia 8 species (one of which may not be native).
Citation
Pichon 1950 – In: Mém. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. p 73
Tsiang & P.T. Li 1977 – In: Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. p 119
Benth. & Hook.f. 1876 – In: Gen. Pl. p 712
Pit. 1933 – In: Lecomte, Fl. Indo-Chine 3. p 1182
D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand. p 79
P.T. Li et al. 1995 – In: Fl. China. p 174
Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java. p 241
Lý 1986 – In: Feddes Repert. p 619
R.Br. 1951 – In: Notul. Syst. (Paris). p 77
P.I. Forst. 1996 – In: Fl. Australia. p 190
Ngan 1965 – In: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. p 114
R.Br. 1810: Prodr. p 467
R.Br. 2005 – In: Harvard Pap. Bot. p 161
K. Schum. 1895 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4. p 183
R.Br. 2004 – In: Tree Fl. Sabah & Sarawak. p 5