Dallachya vitiensis (Dallachya vitiensis)
Description
Dallachya vitiensis grows mostly as a vine rarely shrubby or as a small tree. The leaves are alternate. The leaf blade is 4 to 11.5 inches long and 1.5 to 5 inches wide. The petiole is 0.4 to 1.4 inches long and grooved narrow at the top. The stipules are triangular and about 1 to 2.5 inches long. Six or seven side veins are formed. The flowers are arranged in sitting, axillary, umbellate cymes They grow on a 4 to 7 millimeters long pedicel and have a diameter of 3 to 5 millimeters. The flower cup is short, the discus fused with the flower cup. TheGoblets are about 2 millimeters long and keeled on the inside. The petals are about 1 to 1.5 millimeters long. The stamens have a length of 1 to 1.5 millimeters, the dust bag of about 0.6 millimeters. The ovary is supernatant, the pen about 1.2 millimeters long. The fruits are monotonous drupes and grow individually in the leaf axils. They are about 8 millimeters long with a diameter of about 5 millimeters. The calyx is usually preserved at the base of the fruit. The pericarp is soft and watery at maturity, the endocarp is hard, leathery and usually one-fold.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Rosales
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Family: Rhamnaceae
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Genus: Dallachya
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