Parinari
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Description
Small or large trees or rarely shrubs.
Leaves usually with stomatal crypts filled with pubescence on lower surface or rarely glabrous, or lanate pubescent without crypts.
Stipules small to large, persistent or caducous.
Inflorescence a many-flowered complex cyme or cymose panicle.
Flowers hermaphrodite.
Petals 5, as long as or shorter than sepals, caducous.
Stamens 6-10, unilateral, the filaments glabrous, included, with c. 6 minute staminodes opposite.
Ovary inserted on upper half of receptacle tube below mouth, pilose on exterior;
Fruit a fleshy drupe;
Distribution
Africa present, Asia-Tropical, Australasia, Pacific present, Pantropical present, neotropics present, northern Queensland present, tropical Asia present
Pantropical with 18 species in the Neotropics, 6 in Africa and 15 in tropical Asia (P. anamensis), Malesia, the Pacific region (P. insularam) and northern Queensland, Australia; in Malesia 13 species.
Notes
Since inflorescences and flowers are uniform in the Malesian region, the species are difficult to separate; a key containing all 15 Australasian species, based on leaf characters only, is given here.
Citation
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ST.HIL. 1804 – In: Expos. Fam. p 194
G.DON 1832 – In: Gen. Syst. p 478
SMITH 1985 – In: Fl. Vit. Nov. p 44
Benth. 1849 – In: HOOK., Niger Fl. p 333
LAMK 1804 – In: Encycl. Méth. Bot. p 17
RIDLEY 1922: Fl. Mal. Pen. p 666
BACKER 1911 – In: Schoolfl. Java. p 445
Benth. 1840 – In: Hook. J. Bot. 211, 218
AUBL. 1976 – In: Distr. Pl. Afr. p 327
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JUSS. 1855 – In: Mélang. Bot. p 10
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Benth. 1849 – In: Hook., Niger Fl. p 335
PRANCE 1982 – In: Fl. Venez. p 325
ENDL. 1840: Gen: 1252. n. 6411
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