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Crossopetalum
Sign in to saveCrossopetalum, commonly known as Christmas-berries or maiden berries, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It comprises about 30-40 species.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCelastrales
- FamilyCelastraceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 130
- With media
- 59
- Family
- Celastraceae
- Collections
- CICY, INECOL, IGL-UNAM, IBUNAM, CAS, NY
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Belice, Guatemala, United States, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic
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Encyclopedic overview
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Crossopetalum, commonly known as Christmas-berries or maiden berries, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It comprises about 30-40 species.
== Description == Crossopetalum taxa are shrubs or trees, with opposite or whorled persistent leaves with petiole and stipules. Inflorescences are axillary, regrouping white, pale green, reddish, or purplish radially symmetric flowers, with four sepals, four petals, and a four-carpellate pistil. Intrastaminal nectaries are annular and fleshy. Fruits are red drupes, with one-two seeds per fruit. It blooms and fruits all year long.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crossopetalum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.