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Maba buxifolia

Description

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Family Ebenaceae

Trees or erect shrubs , occasionally with spine-tipped branchlets . Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, entire ; stipules absent. Flowers actinomorphic , usually unisexual , dioecious, or polygamous, rarely bisexual . Male flowers often in cymes, sometimes in clusters or solitary; pistil rudimentary or absent. Female flowers often solitary, axillary , imperfect or without stamens. Calyx 3--7-lobed, persistent and often becoming enlarged in female or bisexual flowers; lobes abutting or overlapping in bud. Corolla 3--7-lobed; lobes convolute, rarely overlapping or abutting. Stamens hypogynous or at bottom of corolla, 2--4 X as many as corolla lobes, rarely as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them; filaments free or united in pairs. Ovary superior, 2--16-locular; ovules 1 or 2 per locule. Styles 2--8, free or basally united; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Fruit a ± fleshy berry, with few to several seeds. Seeds usually oblong ; endosperm sometimes ruminate ; hilum small.

Three genera and ca. 500 species: mostly in the tropics; one genus and 60 species (43 endemic) in China.Shugang Li, Michael G. Gilbert & Frank White "Ebenaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 215. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 323 meters (0 to 1,060 feet).Mean = -7.240 meters (-23.753 feet), Standard Deviation = 135.910 based on 17 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Taxonomy

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Similar Species

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Members of the genus Maba

There are approximately 128 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

M. abyssinica · M. acapulcensis · M. alboflavescens · M. beccarii · M. bicolor · M. bipindensis · M. buxifolia · M. cargillia · M. caribaea · M. carpinifolia · M. chrysantha · M. cinnabarina · M. compacta · M. cooperi · M. coriacea · M. crassinervis · M. cupulosa · M. dawei · M. diffusa · M. ebenus · M. elliotii · M. elliptica · M. enervis · M. euosmia · M. fasciculosa · M. foliosa · M. forbesii · M. fragrans · M. gavi · M. geminata · M. globosa · M. gneissicola · M. gossweileri · M. graboensis · M. grisebachii · M. guineensis · M. hemicycloides · M. hillebrandii · M. humbertii · M. humilis · M. inconstans · M. interstans · M. intricata · M. iturensis · M. janowskyi · M. kamerunensis · M. lamiana · M. lamponga · M. lancea · M. lateriflora · M. latifolia · M. laurentii · M. laurina · M. leonis · M. littorea · M. lokohensis · M. madagascariensis · M. magnifolia · M. maingayi · M. major · M. mannii · M. mayombensis · M. mellinoni · M. micrantha · M. mildbraedii · M. montigena · M. motleyi · M. mualala · M. myriophylla · M. myristicoides · M. myrmecocalyx · M. myrtilloides · M. natalensis · M. nebulorum · M. neilgerrensis · M. nicaraguensis · M. nigrescens · M. nutans · M. obducta · M. oblongicarpa · M. oblongifolia · M. obovata · M. olivacea · M. ovata · M. oxycarpa · M. palauensis · M. parviflora · M. pavonii · M. pentamera · M. perakensis · M. pervilleana · M. pierrei · M. purpusii · M. quadridentata · M. quartzitarum · M. quercina · M. quiloensis · M. racemosa · M. rekoi · M. reticulata

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

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Footnotes

Last Revised: 2008-10-28