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wfo-0000321198
Tarenna zeylanica Gaertn.

Tarenna zeylanica Gaertn.
  • Fruct. Sem. Pl. 1: 139 (1788) 


Cite taxon page as 'WFO (2023): Tarenna zeylanica Gaertn. Published on the Internet;http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000321198. Accessed on: 30 Nov 2023'

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Shrubs, evergreen, to 2.5 m tall; branches glabrous, compressed to subquadrangular, green sometimes turning brown. Petiole 1-2.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade drying papery, oblong-ovate to oblong-obovate, elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, 13-22 × 5-12 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, base cuneate to obtuse, apex shortly cuspidate or acute; secondary veins 7 or 8 pairs, with pilosulous domatia; stipules generally deciduous through fragmentation often leaving persistent base, shortly united around stem, triangular, 3-11 mm, glabrous, acute to acuminate. Inflorescences corymbiform to broadly pyramidal, 4-10 × 6-15 cm, many flowered, glabrous, subsessile to pedunculate; peduncle to 1 cm; bracts linear to narrowly triangular, 1-3 mm, acute; pedicels 3-8 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion ellipsoid to cupular, 1-1.5 mm; limb 1-1.5 mm, lobed for ca. 1/2; lobes triangular. Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube ca. 5 mm, villous in throat; lobes narrowly oblong to spatulate, 7-12 mm, obtuse. Ovules 2 per cell. Berry globose, ca. 10 mm in diam., glabrous; seeds 2-4. Fl. Feb, Apr, fr. Sep, Dec.

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    Flora of China @ efloras.orgGeneral Information

    Shrubs, evergreen, to 2.5 m tall; branches glabrous, compressed to subquadrangular, green sometimes turning brown. Petiole 1-2.5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade drying papery, oblong-ovate to oblong-obovate, elliptic, or elliptic-oblong, 13-22 × 5-12 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, base cuneate to obtuse, apex shortly cuspidate or acute; secondary veins 7 or 8 pairs, with pilosulous domatia; stipules generally deciduous through fragmentation often leaving persistent base, shortly united around stem, triangular, 3-11 mm, glabrous, acute to acuminate. Inflorescences corymbiform to broadly pyramidal, 4-10 × 6-15 cm, many flowered, glabrous, subsessile to pedunculate; peduncle to 1 cm; bracts linear to narrowly triangular, 1-3 mm, acute; pedicels 3-8 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion ellipsoid to cupular, 1-1.5 mm; limb 1-1.5 mm, lobed for ca. 1/2; lobes triangular. Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube ca. 5 mm, villous in throat; lobes narrowly oblong to spatulate, 7-12 mm, obtuse. Ovules 2 per cell. Berry globose, ca. 10 mm in diam., glabrous; seeds 2-4. Fl. Feb, Apr, fr. Sep, Dec.

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    Flora of China @ efloras.org
    'Flora of China @ eFloras (2008). Published on the Internet http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=2 [accessed August 2016]' Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
    • A Missouri Botanical Garden
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    World Flora Online Data. 2022.
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