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3. Celtis L., Sp. Pl. 1043. 1753. Gen. Pl. ed. 5. 382. 1754; Hutch., Gen. Fl. Pl. 2:147. 1967.
RUBINA AKHTER
Trees or shrubs with smooth grey bark. Leaves simple, alternate, petiolate, 3-nerved with unequal bases. Stipules narrow linear, caducous. Flowers unisexual, bisexual or polygamous in axillary or lateral clusters on branches of current season. Male flowers: in axillary or lateral cymes, fertile flowers solitary. Perianth 4 or 5, imbricate, deciduous. Stamens 4-5, filaments short, erect, surrounding a hairy disc. Ovary sessile on a hairy disc, style central, 2-fid, plumose. Fruit a small ovoid or globose drupe, endocarp hard and stony, smooth or rugose.
A genus of about 80 species distributed in the northern hemisphere and South Africa. Represented in Pakistan by 3 species.
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Ovary and young drupes densely pubescent |
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2 Celtis eriocarpa |
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Ovary and young drupes glabrous, seated on hairy disc |
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Leaf margin sharply serrate, under surface shining green, not coriaceous |
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1 Celtis caucasica |
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Leaf margin ± subentire, under surface yellowish-green or brownish, coriaceous |
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3 Celtis tetrandra |
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