Common Name: STAFF-TREE FAMILY Habit: Shrub (climbing or not), tree, thorny or not, generally glabrous. Leaf: simple, opposite or alternate, deciduous to persistent, subsessile or petioled; veins pinnate. Inflorescence: cluster, cyme, raceme, panicle, or 1-flowered, axillary or terminal, bracted. Flower: generally bisexual, radial, small; hypanthium +- cup-shaped; sepals 4--5; petals (0)4--5, free; stamens 4--5, alternate petals, attached below or to rim of disk; ovary superior or +- embedded in disk, 2--5-chambered, placentas axile or basal, style generally 1, short, stigma +- head-like, 2--5-lobed. Fruit: capsule, winged achene, berry, drupe, or nutlet, often 1-chambered. Seed: generally 1 per chamber, arilled. Genera In Family: 50 genera, 800 species: worldwide, especially southeastern Asia; some ornamental (Celastrus, Euonymus, Maytenus, Paxistima). eFlora Treatment Author: Michael A. Vincent & Barry A. Prigge Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: MAITEN Habit: [Shrub] tree, erect. Leaf: alternate, persistent, spreading, leathery, toothed; base, tip acute. Inflorescence: axillary clusters, 1--5-flowered. Flower: parts in 5s; hypanthium broad, flat; petals green-white [yellow]; disk fused to hypanthium, fleshy, +- green; ovary superior, ovoid, stigma lobes 2--4[5], stout, spreading. Fruit: capsule, loculicidal, 2[5]-valved, compressed-spheric, green to +- yellow. Seed: 1--2, brown; aril [orange to] red. Etymology: (Aboriginal name)
Maytenus boaria Molina
NATURALIZED Habit: Plant to 15 m, branches pendent. Stem: twigs green, in age gray-brown. Leaf: petiole 2--5 mm; blade 15--45 mm, +- lanceolate, flat. Flower: unisexual or bisexual, hypanthium 1--1.2 mm; sepals 0.5--0.7 mm, tips obtuse; petals 1.5--3 mm, obtuse or +- acute. Fruit: 6--9 mm, glabrous. Ecology: Scrub regrowth; Elevation: 130--400 m. Bioregional Distribution: SnFrB (Alameda Co.); Distribution Outside California: native to Argentina, Chile. Flowering Time: Apr--May Note: Germinates profusely after fire; control efforts ongoing. Jepson eFlora Author: Michael A. Vincent & Barry A. Prigge Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Maytenus Next taxon: Mortonia
Citation for this treatment: Michael A. Vincent & Barry A. Prigge 2012, Maytenus boaria, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=77417, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Maytenus boaria:
SnFrB (Alameda Co.)
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