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Elaeagnus Linn., Sp.Pl. 121. 1753. Gen.Pl.ed.5.57.1754; Boiss., Fl.Or.4:1056.1879; Hook.f.,Fl.Brit. Ind.5:201.1886; Brandis, Ind. Trees546. 1911; Kanjilal, For.Fl.Siw.Jauns. For. Div.333. 1911; L.H. Bailey, Stand. Cyclop. Hort. 2:1105.1919; Tutin in Tutin et al, Fl.Eur. 2:261. 1968; Zohary, Fl.Pal.2:332.1972.
Deciduous or evergreen small trees or shrubs, often spiny. Leaves covered with silvery scales. Flowers axillary solitary, or in clusters, bisexual or male and hermaphrodite flowers on the same plant. Perianth campanulate or tubular, tepals 4-6. Stamens as many as the tepals and alternating with them; anthers 2-4-locular. Fruit a drupe-like achene, enclosed within the fleshy hypanthium.
About 45 species; S. Europe, N. America, Asia, and N.E. Australia. Represented here by 3 species.
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Leaves silvery grey, covered with peltate scales.
Style glabrous. Endocarp not ribbed or woolly
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Elaeagnus angustifolia |
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Leaves dull green (especially above), with peltate
and stellate hairs. Style stellately hairy. Endocarp
ribbed, woolly within |
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Deciduous shrub or small tree. Leaves 2-9 cm
long, 0.8-3 cm broad. fruit 8-9 mm long |
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Elaeagnus umbellata |
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Evergreen straggling or climbing shrubs rarely
trees, with larger leaves. Fruit up to 2.4 cm long |
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Elaeagnus latifolia |
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Lower Taxa
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