Lindackeria

  • Authority

    Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)

  • Family

    Achariaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lindackeria

  • Type

    Type species. Lindackeria laurina Presl.

  • Description

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    Description - Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, persistent or deciduous, entire, undulate or dentate, penninerved; petiole often elongate, swollen at the base and/or especially at the end; stipules subulate, rarely persistent. Inflorescences axillary or (sub) terminal, short to elongate, racemose or paniculate, few- to many-flowered, rarely reduced to a solitary flower. Flowers bisexual (or partly [male] in the same inflorescence), pedicellate; bracts more or less caducous. Sepals 3, imbricate, caducous. Petals 6-12, imbricate, more or less equalling the sepals, but thinner, caducous. Stamens indefinite; filaments linear to filiform, free or agglutinate (thus seemingly united into a tube); anthers oblong-linear, basifixed, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary shortly stipulate, or sessile, smooth, muricate or echinulate, 1-locular, with 3(-4) pauci- to multi-ovulate placentas; style simple, filiform, shortly 3(or 4)-lobed; stigmas obscure. Fruit capsular, subglobular, often verrucose, tuberculate or echinate, tardily 3(-4)-valvate; pericarp coriaceous to woody. Seeds usually few, ovoid-triangular, with a rather fleshy reddish aril; endosperm copious; embryo straight, large; cotyledons large, cordate, foliaceous.

  • Discussion

    Lindackeria was described by C. Presl (1835) with a single species. In Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam, ed. 1, III, 6a: 18. 1893, Warburg united the genus with Oncoba, following Eichler, Mart. Fl. Bras. 13(1): 439. 1871; Gilg restored it in 1908. The African part of the genus was revised by Sleumer (Bot. Jahrb. 94: 311-326. 1974).

  • Distribution

    The genus has 7 (partly widespread) spp in tropical Africa, and 6 in Central and South America mainly in the Amazon basin. No subgeneric distinction exists between the American and African species.

    Africa| Central America| South America|