Salacia elliptica

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Salacia elliptica
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Salacia elliptica

Systematics
Eurosiden I
Order : Spindle tree (Celastrales)
Family : Spindle trees (Celastraceae)
Subfamily : Salacioideae
Genre : Salacia (genus of plants)
Type : Salacia elliptica
Scientific name
Salacia elliptica
( Mart. Ex Schult. ) G.Don

Salacia elliptica is a tree in the spindle tree family from Bolivia , central to northern Brazil to Paraguay , Venezuela , Colombia to Central America and the Guyanas and Ecuador .

description

Salacia elliptica grows as an evergreen tree up to 10 meters high. The trunk diameter reaches about 40 centimeters.

The simple, opposite and short-stalked, thick leaves are glabrous and leathery. The short petiole is 1–1.5 centimeters long. The entire to slightly notched, egg-shaped to elliptical or obovate leaves are 6-14 inches long and 3.5-7 inches wide. At the top they are rounded to indented or pointed. The leaves are quite different in width in the different habitats, from quite narrow to wide.

The flowers appear in axillary clusters. The yellow to orange, stalked and five-fold, hermaphroditic flowers are double- coated . The flowers are about 10 millimeters in diameter. There are only 3 short stamens and a three-chambered, Upper permanent ovary with short style and a thick, fleshy discus present.

The first green, partly "frosted" and, when ripe, yellow, rounded and mostly smooth, multi-seeded, about 3–5 centimeters large, leathery berries are formed. The beige seeds are encased in a slimy aril .

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28.

Taxonomy

The first description of Basionyms Anthodon ellipticus was made in 1822 by Josef August Schultes by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in JASchultes, Mant. 1: 348. The division into the genus Salacia to Salacia elliptica took place in 1831 by George Don junior in Gen. Hist. 1: 631. Many synonyms are known.

use

The fruits are edible.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Useful Tropical Plants.