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1. Phrynium Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 1: 1, 17. 1797.
[nom. cons.]
柊叶属 zhong ye shu
Phyllodes Loureiro, nom. rej.
Rhizomes creeping. Basal leaves 1 or more; cauline leaf 1 or absent; leaf sheath and petiole long. Inflorescences borne basally or above an elongate internode on leafy shoots, subtended by a cauline leaf or a reduced, bladeless sheath, compound, capitate, often with additional spikes borne in axils of basal bracts of initially produced spike and later additional ones in basal bracts of secondary spikes, often in a very compact, congested group of few to many small spikes; bracts spirally arranged, often shredding into fibers after anthesis, at least at apex. Flower pairs 2 to many per bract. Sepals usually longer than corolla tube, membranous. Corolla tube proximally ± solid, distally hollow; lobes 3, oblong, subequal. Outer staminodes 2, obovate, staminode tube longer than corolla tube; callose staminode wholly callose, not petaloid at apex. Style curved after tripping; stigma enlarged, blunted. Fruit globose to ellipsoid, dehiscent, often late dehiscent; pericarp hard. Seeds 1--3; aril membranous.
About 20 species: tropical Asia; five species (one endemic) in China.
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Bracts with a spinescent acumen at apex |
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1 Phrynium placentarium |
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Bracts without a spinescent acumen at apex. |
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Bracts 3.5--5 cm, apex soon withering; flowers yellowish |
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2 Phrynium oliganthum |
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Bracts 2--3 cm, apex not withering; flowers white, yellow-orange, or purple. |
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Bracts wholly shredding into fibers after anthesis; flowers white |
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3 Phrynium hainanense |
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Bracts apically shredding into fibers after anthesis; flowers not white. |
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Leaf blade oblong-ovate to oblong, 25--50 × 10--12 cm; inflorescence heads ca. 5 cm in diam. |
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4 Phrynium rheedei |
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Leaf blade narrowly ovate, 35--45 × 6--8 cm; inflorescence heads ca. 3 cm in diam. |
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5 Phrynium tonkinense |
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