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Hymenocardia ulmoides (Hymenocardia ulmoides)

Description

Hymenocardia ulmoides Oliv. is an accepted nameThis name is the accepted name of a species in the genus Hymenocardia family Phyllanthaceae.The record derives from WCSP data supplied on 2012-03-23 which reports it as an accepted name record 101170 with original publication details: Hooker's Icon. Pl. 12: t. 1131 1873.Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI Usually a small tree to medium-sized tree. Leaves alternate, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, broadly tapering, bright or dark green above, paler below with a few scattered gland dots and minute domatia in the axils of the veins; margins entire somewhat rolled under; petiole reddish. Flowers unisexual on different trees, male flowers, pinkish in small catkin-like spikes; female flowers solitary, green. Fruit sub-orbicular or heart-shaped, flat, almost completely surrounded by a wing, emarginate at the apex, rose-red, streaked with yellow or green

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Malpighiales

            • Family: Phyllanthaceae

              • Genus: Hymenocardia