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Myrica trifoliolata

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Description

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Family Myricaceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen or deciduous, monoecious or dioecious, aromatic , often with resinous , peltate glands . Leaves alternate, simple , pinnately veined, entire to irregularly serrate or lobed , rarely pinnatifid ; stipules absent or rarely present. Flowers in spikes, usually unisexual , anemophilous , without perianth. Male flowers solitary in axil of each bract, with 2-4 bracteoles or not. Stamens 2-20, often 4-8 on receptacle at base of bract; filaments short, free or slightly united at base; anthers erect , dithecal , extrorse , dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers solitary or 2-4 in axil of bract, usually with 2-4 bracteoles. Gynoecium of 2 carpels united into a compound and 1-loculed ovary; styles distinct or united only at base; ovule solitary, basal, erect, orthotropous . Fruit drupaceous , or nearly a nutlet , often with headlike, wax-covered papillae; endocarp hard. Seeds nearly without endosperm; embryo straight; cotyledons fleshy , plano-convex .

Three genera and ca. 50 species: widespread in both hemispheres, mostly in temperate or subtropical regions; one genus and four species (two endemic) in China.[1]

Genus Myrica

Trees or shrubs evergreen or deciduous, dioecious or monoecious, with resinous , peltate glands in young parts. Leaves simple , often aggregated at apex of shoot , margin entire or serrate; stipules absent. Flowering precocious or coetaneous . Inflorescences spicate , simple or paniculate . Male flowers with 2-8(-20) stamens; filaments free or united at base , with bracteoles or not. Female flowers with 2-4 bracteoles adnate to ovary and enlarged, or free and not enlarged; ovary with resinous glands; style short, with 2 relatively long stigmatic branches. Fruit a drupe, often with headlike, wax-covered papillae; endocarp hard. Seeds erect , with membranous testa.

About 50 species: nearly worldwide except for some warm temperate parts of Old World and Australia; four species (two endemic) in China.[2]

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Hort. ex DC. Publication : Prodr. (DC.) 2: 73 1825 [mid Nov 1825]

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Myrica

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

M. comptonia (Sweetgale) · M. gale (Bog Myrtle) · M. gale var. gale (Sweetgale) · M. hartwegii (Sierra Bayberry) · M. rivas-martinezii (Faya Herre) · M. rubra (Chinese Arbutus)

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Footnotes

  1. Anmin Lu & Allan J. Bornstein "Myricaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 275. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Anmin Lu & Allan J. Bornstein "Myrica". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 275. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/22/2012