Habit: Tree [shrub]; sap milky; monoecious.
Stem: branches slender, glabrous.
Leaf: cauline, alternate; petiole tip with adaxial pair of large, +- spheroid glands; blade entire, adaxially glabrous, abaxially papillate-glaucous, with 0--few glands near margins.
Inflorescence: spike-like panicles or racemes, terminal or axillary, elongate, yellow-green; bracts 1--2 mm, with pair of large glands; pedicels 2--3 mm in ours; pistillate flowers basal, 1/bract; staminate flowers distal or throughout, generally 5--8/bract.
Staminate Flower: sepals 3, fused; stamens 2 or 3, filaments generally < 1 mm; nectary disk 0.
Pistillate Flower: sepals 3, fused; nectary disk 0; ovary 3-chambered, styles 3, fused proximally, simple.
Fruit: +- spheric or +- 3-lobed, smooth.
Seed: +- white, often staying attached to persistent fruit axis.
Species In Genus: 3 species: native to eastern & southeastern Asia.
Etymology: (Greek: 3, for lobes of calyx, ovary, fruit)
Jepson eFlora Author: Bruce G. Baldwin
Reference: Bower et al. 2009 Inv Pl Sci Managem 2:386--395; Esser 2002 Harvard Pap Bot 7:17--21
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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