Streblus Lour.

Details

Name scientific

Streblus Lour. (1790)

Preferred name

Streblus Lour.

Linked name

Streblus

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Lour.

Authors

Lour.

Year published

1790

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Streblus Lour.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Streblus

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Moraceae

Genus

Streblus

Subordinates

Synonyms

Paratrophis Blume

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Paratrophis Blume

Description

Fls mixed with peltate scales, in axillary or rarely terminal spikes; per. 4-partite, segs rounded, imbricate, in bud. ♂ ∞; stamens 4, filaments inflexed; ovary rud. ♀ us. fewer; per. minute; ovary sessile, exserted; ovule solitary, pend. Fr. drupaceous, invested by persistent per. Dioec. trees with alt. coriac. lvs; stipules small, caducous. Genus of about 10 spp. of Polynesia and 3 endemic to N.Z. The spikes are often diseased and converted into small panicles densely clad in imbricating bracts.