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1. Platea Blume, Bijdr. 646. 1826.
肖榄属 xiao lan shu
Trees. Young branches, young leaves, and inflorescences with rust-colored stellate scales or simple hairs. Leaf blade leathery, with palmate veins, margin entire. Plants polygamous or dioecious; staminate flowers in axillary interrupted spikes, or in panicles; pistillate flowers in short, axillary racemes. Sepals 5, free or united at base, imbricate. Petals 5, connate at base into a very short tube, apex free, valvate, in pistillate flowers early deciduous or absent. Stamens 5, inserted at corolla base, alternate with corolla lobes; filaments shorter than anthers; anthers retrorse. Ovary (in staminate flowers reduced or absent) globose to terete; stigma broadly discoid. Drupe terete; exocarp blue-black, thin; endocarp woody, with reticulate ribs.
About five species: tropical Asia; two species (one endemic) in China.
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Leaf blade apically acuminate, base rounded or obtuse; petiole 2-3.5 cm. |
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1 P. latifolia |
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Leaf blade apically obtuse, base broadly cuneate; petiole 1-1.5 cm. |
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2 P. parvifolia |
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