Description
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Small to medium-sized trees. Stipules wanting. Leaves alternate, paripinnate; leaflets entire; distal leaflet rudimentary. Inflorescences distal or axillary, paniculate thyrses, with flowers in lateral sub-cincinni. Flowers functionally unisexual; calyx zygomorphic, sepals 5, free, imbricate, the outer 2 smaller; petals 5, clawed, twice as long as the sepals; appendages hood-shaped, with corniform crest and wooly ligule; disc semi-annular; stamens 8; pollen isopolar, subspheroidal, colporate, with striate ornamentation; ovary 3-carpellate, with a single ovule per carpel; stigma shortly trifid. Fruit of a single, woody, sub-globose, winged mericarp, the wing surrounding the entire longitudinal circumference of the locule; seed solitary, exarillate with a large hilum at base.
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- Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez
- bibliographic citation
- Acevedo-Rodríguez P (2012) Alatococcus, a new genus of Sapindaceae from Espirito Santo, Brazil PhytoKeys 10: 1–5
- author
- Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez
Distribution
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One species, known only from Espirito Santo, Brazil.
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- cc-by-3.0
- copyright
- Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez
- bibliographic citation
- Acevedo-Rodríguez P (2012) Alatococcus, a new genus of Sapindaceae from Espirito Santo, Brazil PhytoKeys 10: 1–5
- author
- Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez