Opocunonia
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Opocunonia is a plant kind from the family of Cunoniaceae .
description
All Opocunonia species are trees. The leaves are pinnate unpaired and have frequently along the midrib a domatium .
The inflorescences are axillary or terminal sympodies , the flowers open at the same time and are protandric . The perianth is five or sixfold, the nectarium ring-shaped.
The fruits are capsules with around forty winged seeds.
distribution
The genus is native to eastern Malesia and the Solomon Islands .
Systematics
The exact extent of the genus is unclear, since the differentiation of the species from one another is difficult due to their high variability. Among other things, the following were described:
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