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Saudi Arabia flora checklist
Plicosepalus
Nomencalture
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Family: Loranthaceae
Genus:
Plicosepalus
SUMMARY
♦ Plicosepalus Tieghem. Flora of Saudi Arabia, Jizan
Branches often several meter long. Leaves subopposite to alternate, sometimes clustered on short shoots, sessile or subsessile. Flowers in umbellate inflorescence, 1-few, 5-merous, bracteate; bract saucer-shaped with small limb. Calyx rim-like to cupular. Petals curved in bud. Stamens subequal; style filiform, often corrugated near base; stigma ciliate. Fruit a berry, ellipsoid or urceolate, smooth or warty.