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Plocospermataceae Hutch.
LSID urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:1798264
Family protologue: information to follow
Monospecific family
Plocosperma buxifolium Benth.
LSID urn:lsid:ubio.org:namebank:5849819
Species protologue: Hooker J D (1876) Hooker's Icones Plantarum; or figures, with brief descriptive characters and remarks of new or rare plants, Vol. 12: 82, plate 1195
Types
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Protologue
Frutex glaber, ramis rigidis elongatis.
Folia opposita, brevissime petiolata, ovata v. oblonga, utrinque obtusa, integerrima, coriacea, supra nitida, subtus opaca, costa prominente, ½-1-pollicaria, iss Buxi sempervirentis subsimilia.
Flores in nodix axillaribus ramorum annotinorum v. vetustiorum 2-4-ni in pedunculo brevissimo subracemosi v. interdum solitarii, pedicellis 1-2 lin. longis filiformibus ebracteatis.
Calyx lineam longus, 5-partitus.
Corolla tubo brevi subinfundibularis-campanulata, expansa fere pollicem diametro, lobis 5 latis imbricatis.
Stamina 5, inaequalia, corolla breviora; antherarum loculi paralleli.
Ovarium 1-loculare, basi in stipitem brevem crassum subcontractum, apice desinens in stylum filiformem apice bis 2-fidum, ramulis ultimis intus stigmatosis; ovula 4, per paria parietibus affixa, 2 inferiora ereta, 2 superiora pendula.
Capsula linearis, subteres, 3-pollicaris, coriacea, tenuiter ∞-costata sulcataque, ab apice 2-valvis, valva quaque ovulum unum cujusque paris ferente.
Semen tamen in capsula unicum perfectum, lineare, 2-pollicare, subteres v. compressum, apice coma densa brevique pilorum appendiculatum; testa subcoriacea; albumen tenuiter carnosum; embryo linearis, perfectus tamen ignotus.
Original document, plate 1195
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Ecology
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Conservation
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species - Category: Unlisted
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Molecular sequences
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