Morinda

Razafimandimbison, Sylvain G. & Bremer, Birgitta, 2011, Nomenclatural changes and taxonomic notes in the tribe Morindeae (Rubiaceae), Adansonia (3) 33 (2), pp. 283-309 : 297-298

Genus Morinda L.

Species plantarum: 176 (1753). — Type: Morinda royoc L. (lecto-, designated by Hitchcock: 132 [1929]).

Rojoc Adans. , Famille des Plantes 2: 246 (1763).

Appunettia Good , Journal of Botany 64 (Supplement 2):

30 (1926). — Type: Appunettia angolensis Good.

Sarcopygme Setch. & Christoph., Occasional Papers of

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology

and Natural History 11: 4 (1935), syn. nov. — Type:

Sarcopygme pacifica (Reinecke) Setch. & Christoph.

DESCRIPTION

Small trees or shrubs, rarely lianas. Leaves petiolate (rarely subsessile), chartaceous to coriaceous, glabrous. Inflorescences mostly leaf-opposed (modified terminal inflorescences), sometimes axillary with heads arranged into secondarily compound inflorescences, composed of 1 to 3 heads, sometimes axillary with heads arranged into secondarily compound inflorescences, pedunculate (rarely sessile), branched. Flowers bisexual; corolla tubes much larger than corolla lobes; filaments inserted in corolla throat, linear, glabrous, white; anthers partly exserted (rarely well exserted); disk annular, persistent in fruit; style filiform, terete; stigma bilobate, more or less recurved, not exserted; ovaries inferior, bilocular, with longitudinal false dissepiment, ovaries of all flowers of a head basally to completely fused; locule biovular. Fruits fused into syncarps. Seed globose or semi-globose.

NUMBER OF SPECIES RECOGNIZED

40 species (see Appendix 1).

DISTRIBUTION

Pantropical.

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