Flora Da Reserva Ducke Amazonas, Brasil: Rhizophoraceae

Abstract

Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, in pairs or verticels entire, with single midrib. Stipules present, interpetiolar, sheathing the terminal bud, caducous. Flowers solitary and axillary or in axillary few-flowered cymes or racemes or a dichotomous, corymbose panicle, hermaphrodite or dioecious, actinomorphic, perigynous or epigynous; sepals 4-7, valvate; petals 4-7, alternate with sepals, and usually shorter, fimbriate or laciniate; stamens 8-40, twice or 3-4 times as many as petals, borne in a single ring, often in pairs opposite the petals, inserted around the base of a perigynous nectary disk, or disk rarely absent, free or connate at base; anthers introrse, longitudinally dehiscent, dorsifixed; ovary superior in Reserve Ducke genera, or inferior, 2-6 locular,