Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
Family:
Dilleniaceae
Dilleniaceae
Description:
Description - Twining vines; stems thick, sometimes attaining 30 cm in diameter; cross section with concentric rings of xylem alternating with concentric rings of parenchyma. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or serrate, petiolate; stipules absent or of short duration. Inflorescences of fascicles or glomerules. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic. Calyx of 3-6 free sepals, subequal, generally the inner ones larger, imbricate, persistent; petals 2-6, free, early deciduous, white; stamens numerous, the filaments unequal, the anthers dehiscent by longitudinal sutures; ovary superior, unicarpellate, with two basal ovules, the style terminal, filiform, the stigma punctiform to peltate. Fruit a berry or capsule with irregular dehiscence; seeds usually 2, reniform, black, covered by a white arillode, membranaceous or fleshy. A neotropical genus of about 40 species.
Description - Twining vines; stems thick, sometimes attaining 30 cm in diameter; cross section with concentric rings of xylem alternating with concentric rings of parenchyma. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or serrate, petiolate; stipules absent or of short duration. Inflorescences of fascicles or glomerules. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic. Calyx of 3-6 free sepals, subequal, generally the inner ones larger, imbricate, persistent; petals 2-6, free, early deciduous, white; stamens numerous, the filaments unequal, the anthers dehiscent by longitudinal sutures; ovary superior, unicarpellate, with two basal ovules, the style terminal, filiform, the stigma punctiform to peltate. Fruit a berry or capsule with irregular dehiscence; seeds usually 2, reniform, black, covered by a white arillode, membranaceous or fleshy. A neotropical genus of about 40 species.