Oemleria Reichenbach (Q4444)

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Oemleria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Osmaronieae
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Oemleria Reichenbach
Oemleria is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Osmaronieae

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    taxon/id/Oemleria Reichenbach
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    Oemleria Reichenbach
    Oemleria
    Reichenbach
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    osoberry (English)
    Indian plum (English)
    Indianplum (English)
    osoberry (English)
    w North America
    Shrubs or trees, 15–60 dm.
    Stems (1–) 5–20, arching;
    bark purplish brown, pith chambered;
    Leaves deciduous, cauline, alternate;
    stipules caducous, free, distinct, linear, margins entire;
    blade oblong-lanceolate, elliptic, or oblong, 5–10 (–15) cm, coriaceous, margins flat, entire, abaxial surface sometimes puberulent, glabrescent, adaxial glabrous.
    Inflorescences axillary on lateral, pendulous branches, 5–10-flowered, determinate racemes, glabrous, glabrate, or hairy;
    peduncles present;
    bracteoles present.
    Pedicels present.
    Flowers usually unisexual, sometimes bisexual (plants usually dioecious, rarely monoecious), 10–15 mm diam.;
    hypanthium turbinate to campanulate, 3–5 mm, glabrous, glabrate, or hairy;
    sepals 5, spreading (staminate flowers) or erect (pistillate), triangular;
    petals 5, greenish white, elliptic-ovate or elliptic-obovate, base clawed;
    staminodia in pistillate flowers;
    stamens 15 in 3 series, shorter than petals;
    torus absent or minute;
    carpels usually 5 (not evident or aborted in staminate flowers), distinct, glabrous, styles 5, deciduous, included within hypanthia;
    stigmas 5, capitate;
    Fruits aggregated drupes, (1–) 2–5, purple-black, elliptic-obovate to ovate, 5–15 mm, pulp thin, glabrous;
    hypanthium persistent (staminate) or mostly deciduous (pistillate);
    sepals not persistent.