SALVADORACEAE
Morphological description
Shrubs with axillary spines.
Leaves
Leaves simple, opposite, entire, stipules small or absent.
Inflorescence
Inflorescence.
Flowers
Flowers 4-merous, petals free, disk absent; ovary superior, ovules 4, basal. Flowers usually unisexual (plants monoecious or dioecious); ovary 2-celled.
Fruit
Fruit a berry.
Seed
Seed.
Different from: Oleaceae: never spiny, stamens 2. - Rubiaceae: stipules well developed, ovary inferior.
Distribution: The family paleotropical; in Malesia only Azima (Southeast Asia, Philippines, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands), monsoon areas.
Notes: notes.
Literature: C.A. Backer, Fl. Males. I, 4 (1951) 224-225.
Spot characters (Van Balgooy): Azima 12.
Illustrations: Fig. 157. Azima sarmentosa (Blume) Benth. & Hook. (Salvadoraceae). Female twig with fruits, part of male inflorescence; also, a single male flower, enlarged. Reproduced from Flora Malesiana I, 4 (1951) 224, fig. 1. 200 Fig. 158.
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