Ackama
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Ackama is a plant kind from the family of Cunoniaceae .
description
Ackama species are trees. The leaves are pinnate and side sheets provided, but may be absent, and have along the midrib a tufted domatium .
The inflorescences are axillary, often in rows, panicles , the flowers open at the same time. The flowers are protandric , sessile or almost sessile, the nectaries are segmented. The ovary has two to four carpels .
The fruits are capsules with hairy, wingless seeds.
distribution
The genus is native to New Zealand and Australia .
Systematics
The genus consists of four species, including:
- Ackama australiensis (Schltr.) CTWhite
- Ackama paniculosa (F.Muell.) Heslewood
- Ackama rosifolia A. Cunn .
proof
- JC Bradford, HC Fortune Hopkins, RW Barnes: Cunoniaceae In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales , 2004, p. 91-111
Individual evidence
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