Quadriala lanceolata

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Description

Family Santalaceae

Herbs or shrubs , rarely trees , usually root hemiparasites, occasionally aerial hemiparasites (Dendrotrophe and Phacellaria) ; nodes not articulated, mostly glabrous , less often hairy , hairs simple . Leaves usually alternate (opposite in Buckleya), sometimes scale-like (absent in Phacellaria) ; stipules absent; petiole often indistinct; leaf blade simple, usually pinnately veined, sometimes palmately 3-9-veined (in Dendrotrophe), margin entire . Inflorescences mostly axillary , occasionally terminal (in Buckleya), cymose , umbellate , paniculate , racemelike, spicate , or clustered, sometimes 1-flowered; bracts scale-like, small, sometimes forming involucre, sometimes ± adnate to pedicel (in Thesium) ; bracteoles sometimes present, paired . Flowers bisexual or unisexual (plants usually dioecious, rarely monoecious), actinomorphic , 3-6(-8) -merous, very small; perianth lobes 3-6(-8), slightly fleshy . Male flowers: perianth lobes valvate or slightly imbricate in bud, incurved or patent when flowering, sparsely hairy or with tongue-shaped appendage at the insertion of the stamens. Disk epigynous or perigynous, sometimes absent, margin sinuate or lobed , sometimes distinct , glandular or scaly . Stamens as many as and opposite to perianth lobes, usually on the base of lobes; filaments filiform , short; anthers gynobasic or dorsifixed near base, 2-celled, parallel or divaricate , dehiscence usually longitudinal . Female and bisexual flowers: perianth tube usually longer than that of male. Ovary inferior or half-inferior, 1- or 5-12-loculed; ovules 1-3(-5), anatropous or hemitropous , integument absent. Style 1; stigma capitate, small, truncate or lobed. Fruit a drupe or a nut, exocarp usually fleshy, endocarp crustaceous or bony. Seed 1, without a differentiated testa; endosperm copious , usually white and partitioned, fleshy; embryo cylindric , straight, small, smooth , rugose , or many ridged . 2n = 5, 6, 7, 12, 13+.

About 36 genera and 500 species: widely distributed in tropical and temperate regions ; seven genera and 33 species (13 endemic) in China.Nianhe Xia & Michael G. Gilbert "Santalaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 208. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Buckleya lanceolata
2. Buckleya lanceolata (Siebold & Zucc.) Miq.

Notes

Publishing author : Siebold & Zucc. Publication : Abh. Akad. Muench. iv . II. (1843) 195 (Fam. Nat. Fl. Jap. i. 87)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Quadriala

There are approximately 1 species in this genus:

Q. lanceolata

Bibliography

• Tam Pui-cheung. 1988. Santalaceae. In: Kiu Hua-shing & Ling Yeou-ruenn, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 24: 5286.

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Contributors

• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 26, 2008.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8714937
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15834604
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:780542-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 780542-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1399682

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