Brexiella
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Brexiella is a genus of plants fromthe spindle tree family (Celastraceae).
description
Brexiella are bare trees or shrubs. The leaves are opposite, rarely whorled , have entire margins and toothed or spiky-toothed on the edge.
The inflorescence is axillary, sympodial or tufted. The flowers are hermaphroditic and five-fold, the disc fleshy and ring-shaped, five-angled or five-lobed. The dust bag open along the center of the flower out of the ovary is two to dreifächrig, each compartment there are two ovules .
The fruit is a spherical, somewhat fleshy berry , with three to four approximately spherical, protein-rich seeds surrounded by an aril . The raphe is branched.
distribution
The genus is endemic to Madagascar , where it occurs in humid and coastal forests.
Systematics
The genus includes two types:
- Brexiella cymosa H.Perrier
- Brexiella ilicifolia H.Perrier .
proof
- MP Simmons: Celastraceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. 2004, pp. 29-64
Individual evidence
- ^ Tropicos.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, accessed April 27, 2008, online for the genus, see also subordinate pages.