Family: Rubiaceae
Coprosma
Citation:
Forster & Forster f., Char. Gen. Pl. 137 (1776).
Derivation: Greek kopros, dung; osme, smell; alluding to the foetid odour of some species.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Perennial woody shrubs; leaves opposite, with stipules connate with the petiole to form a sheath around the node.
Inflorescence an axillary thyrse usually reduced to a few-flowered dichasium; flowers unisexual (plants dioecious), 4- or 5-merous; calyx short, persistent; corolla tubular, with valvate lobes, deciduous; stamens with the filaments connate to the base of the corolla tube; anthers with a terminal appendage; ovary inferior, with 2 locules each with 1 ovule; style deeply 2-lobed.
Fruit a very fleshy drupe, with 2 rarely 1 pyrene.
Distribution:
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About 90 species found in Malaysia, Polynesia, New Zealand, Australia and Chile.
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Biology:
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Author:
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