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Bantolinao / Bantulinao-Maba buxifolia |
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Written by Bonsai King
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 09:06 |
Local Name:
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Bantolinao, Bantulinao, Bantulinaw
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Scientific Name:
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Maba buxifolia |
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Family:
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Ebenaceae
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Habitat
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Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Borneo.
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Propagation
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By seeds
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Comments
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| Maba buxifolia is found in forests as erect shrubs or tender evergreen trees with glossy leaves and small white flowers in May, and fruits in June-July which turn red as they mature. It is occasionally with spine-tipped branchlets . The leaves alternate, entire; stipules absent. Flowers actinomorphic , usually unisexual , dioecious, or polygamous, rarely bisexual . The male flowers often in cymes, sometimes in clusters or solitary; pistil rudimentary or absent. The female flowers are often solitary, axillary , imperfect or without stamens. Calyx 3--7-lobed, persistent and often becoming enlarged in female or bisexual flowers; lobes abutting or overlapping in bud. Corolla 3--7-lobed; lobes convolute, rarely overlapping or abutting. Stamens hypogynous or at bottom of corolla, 2--4 X as many as corolla lobes, rarely as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them; filaments free or united in pairs. Ovary superior, 2--16-locular; ovules 1 or 2 per locule. Styles 2--8, free or basally united; stigma entire or 2-lobed. Fruit a ± fleshy berry, with few to several seeds. Seeds usually oblong ; endosperm sometimes ruminate ; hilum small. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 August 2011 17:32 |