Rhodotypos Siebold & Zuccarini (Q4490)

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Rhodotypos is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Kerrieae
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Rhodotypos Siebold & Zuccarini
Rhodotypos is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Kerrieae

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    taxon/id/Rhodotypos Siebold & Zuccarini
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    Rhodotypos Siebold & Zuccarini
    Rhodotypos
    Siebold & Zuccarini
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Black jetbead (English)
    Shrubs, spreading, rounded, 5–20 (–30) dm.
    Stems 5–20+, widely arcuate;
    Leaves deciduous, cauline, opposite;
    stipules deciduous, linear, margins entire;
    blade ovate, 4.5–10 cm, membranous, margins flat, sharply doubly serrulate, teeth sometimes stipitate-glandular along distal margins, surfaces sparsely sericeous.
    Inflorescences terminal on vernal, leaf-bearing branches, flowers solitary;
    Pedicels present.
    Flowers 30–45 mm diam.;
    epicalyx bractlets 4, slender;
    hypanthium shallowly cupped, 4–6 mm diam., exterior sericeous-strigose;
    sepals 4, spreading, ovate to oblong-ovate;
    petals 4, spreading-ascending, white, ovate-orbiculate, base short-clawed, apex rounded;
    stamens 30–60 (± in 4 clusters), much shorter than petals;
    torus thickened, dome-shaped, surrounding and overtopping ovaries, constricted below styles, leaving styles free, distally crenulate or 4-toothed;
    carpels 4, glabrous, styles lateral;
    Fruits aggregated nutlets (appearing as dry drupelets), 1–4, black, ovoid-globose, compressed, 6–9 mm;
    mesocarp dry, thin;
    endocarp thick, cartilaginous;
    hypanthium persistent;