calyx tube

Branchlets, fruiting pedicel, and persistent calyx tube pubescent. Leaf blade abaxially densely pubescent at least on veins.

Calyx tube 5-winged; pedicel along with calyx wings glandular setose; leaves often appearing to be in two ranks.

Fruiting calyx tube greatly inflated, bladder like, translucently membranous, with reticulate veins, teeth remaining minute.

Stems slender. Leaves petiolate. Calyx obconical-campanulate. Corolla slightly longer than calyx, tube included.

Inflorescences pedunculate capitula; middle part of calyx tube persistent and beak like at apex of fruit.

If the sepals are joined at their lateral margins a calyx tube is formed, the mouth of which may be extended into lobes or teeth.

Calyx divided to base, lobes recurved, calyx tube absent; leaflet blades with lateral veins lax and obscure.

Calyx tube well developed, campanulate; leaves clustered at branchlet tip.

Calyx tube and abaxial surface of leaf blade densely yellowish brown pubescent; peduncle recurved, pubescent.

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat, upper anthers slightly exserted from calyx tube.

Petals 4 or 5, inserted near mouth of calyx tube, imbricate or valvate in bud, conspicuous or not, or absent.

Ovary glabrous. Capsule globose, slightly longer than calyx tube.

Style erect, slightly exserted from throat of calyx tube, glabrous. Fruit not seen.

Petals inserted at rim of calyx tube, usually isomerous with and similar to sepals, alternating with them.

bracts caducous; flowers articulate below calyx tube.

Calyx tube usually shorter than 2 cm; stamens usually exserted from calyx tube; style not adnate to inside of calyx tube.

Calyx tube horseshoe-shaped curved at middle; leaf blade base rounded.

Branchlets, fruiting pedicel, and persistent calyx tube glabrous. Leaf blade abaxially glabrous or veins or vein axils sparsely hairy.

Branchlets, fruiting pedicel, and persistent calyx tube glabrous; leaf blade abaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy on veins or vein axils.

Sepals (calyx lobes) 5, partially connate into calyx tube, imbricate, persistent.

Drupe purple-black at maturity, obovoid-globose or globose, with persistent calyx tube at base, with 3 stones.

anthers linear-oblong, included within calyx tube.

Corolla white, 4-lobed, exserted from calyx, tube ca. 4 mm, outside sparsely glandular, inside puberulent, yellowish villous in throat.

Petals 5, free, imbricate, unequal, clawed, adnate from middle to upper part of calyx tube.

Fruit dry, ridged or winged, apically with middle part of calyx tube persistent and beak like.

Bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 1-veined. Calyx teeth linear, as long as to slightly longer than calyx tube. Nutlets smooth.

Disk thin, lining calyx tube, slightly fleshy, at margin free.

Style partly adnate to inside of calyx tube (in Chinese species).

Non-Chinese material so named has the calyx tube densely tomentose outside.

stigma capitate. Capsule subglobose, included in calyx tube.

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted slightly above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl at throat.

Style not adnate to inside of calyx tube (in Chinese species).

fruiting calyx to 5 mm, nodding, recurved at throat, teeth much shorter than calyx tube.

Calyx tube lantern-shaped, slightly swollen at middle, ca. 2 cm in diam. ; leaf blade adaxially faintly white spotted.

Calyx tube disk- to cup-shaped or hemispherical.

Disk in open flowers not entirely lining calyx tube.

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl below throat.

upper ones partly exserted from calyx tube.

Flowers bisexual. Calyx tube campanulate, 5-ribbed, completely adnate to ovary, 5-toothed.

Flower-bearing part of spikes broadly cylindric or cylindric, 1-5 cm; calyx tube ca. 5 mm; petal limb narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate.

lobes linear-lanceolate, 8-10 mm, margin ciliolate, apex acuminate, midvein outside strongly keeled and decurrent into wings of calyx tube.

Fruit wings conspicuously 3-5-veined, calyx tube more than 3 cm in diam. ; leaf buds obtuse, stout, glabrous, setose or woolly.

Drupe obovoid-globose, with 2 or 3 one-seeded stones, base with remnants of persistent calyx tube.

Bracteoles 2, linear, ca. 5 mm, glandular puberulent, base adherent to calyx tube.

Drupe purple-red, turning black at maturity, obovoid-globose, 4-5 mm in diam. , with persistent calyx tube at base, with 3 stones.

Calyx tube-shaped, ca. 6 mm, stellate puberulent, 5-lobed, lobes triangular.

44 (43) Calyx tube upper part abruptly dilated into limb, margin not revolute.

Drupe nearly dry, black at maturity, obovoid-globose, 4-5 mm in diam. , with 2 stones, with persistent calyx tube at base.

pedicel short. Calyx tube adnate to ovary, 4- or 5-dentate , persistent.

Flowers small, to 3. 5 mm from base of calyx tube to tip of longest perianth segment.

Calyx tube-shaped, 5-lobed, lobes usually unequal and 2-lipped.

anthers oblong, ca. 0. 4 mm, included within calyx tube.

bracts lanceolate, ca. 4 mm. Pedicel ca. 2 mm. Calyx tube ca. 2 mm, teeth 5, pubescent and glandular but more densely so outside.

Calyx tube obovoid, ca. 2 mm in diam.

anthers yellow, oblong-ovoid, 1-1. 2 mm, included within calyx tube.

Capsule ellipsoid-ovoid, 1--1. 5 cm, protruding from calyx tube.

Drupe 1-loculed, 1-seeded, with persistent calyx tube at base.

20 (19) Calyx tube broadly cupular or subglobose, orifice ca. 15 mm in diam. , ring absent.

calyx tube to 2. 8 cm in diam.

Inflorescences narrowly cylindric spikes; calyx tube 5-7 mm, lobes erect, 1-1. 5 mm; fruit globose or oblate, 1. 5-2. 5 cm, glabrous, scaly.

Calyx tube ca. 2 mm, conspicuously longitudinally canaliculate, sparsely pubescent, hairs spreading, dull-yellowish, long;

Staminate flowers: calyx tube obconical, calyx lobes triangular;

Calyx tube proximally ridged or winged, narrowly tubular in middle part, distally cupular;

Capsule obconical, small, for most of its length enclosed in adnate calyx tube and persistent perianth segments, leathery, apex 2-8-valvate;

Stamens attached to mouth of calyx tube, twice as many as petals, inflexed, unequal in length;

Drupe subglobose, glabrous to densely hairy, base with persistent calyx tube, apex with rudimentary style;

posterior teeth much shorter than calyx tube, triangular;

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted below middle of calyx tube, upper whorl between throat and middle of tube;

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted just above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl slightly below throat;

Calyx tube hemispheric to turbinate, adnate to ovary;

Calyx tube campanulate or funnelform, ca. 4 mm, abruptly constricted above ovary;

style 1, simple, usually free from distal part of calyx tube, subulate to filiform;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted just above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl just below throat;

Disk cup like, adnate to inside of calyx tube, free from ovary, rim lobed;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted slightly above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted at or slightly above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat;

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl slightly below throat;

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl reaching mouth;

Calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 5-6 mm, conspicuously constricted above ovary, enlarged below lobes;

Drupe globose, to 1. 5 cm, ferruginous pubescent, gradually glabrescent, with persistent calyx tube at base;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted just above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat;

Fertile flowers with calyx tube cupular;

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl just below throat;

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted well above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl just below lobes;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat;

Calyx tube tubular-campanulate, 4-5 mm, conspicuously constricted above ovary, widening at base of lobes;

Calyx tube green, narrowly obconic-campanulate, ca. 3 mm, villous;

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl at throat;

Stamens exserted from throat of calyx tube;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat;

Stamens 10, lower whorl inserted above middle of calyx tube, upper whorl near throat, subsessile;

Drupe black at maturity, globose or subglobose, with 2 stones, with persistent calyx tube at base;

Calyx tube adnate to ovary, conical;

calyx tube long, slightly quadrangular, cupular in distal part, lobes 4(or 5), triangular;

Stamens 10, both whorls inserted below middle of calyx tube;

Disk glabrous, rather thin and inconspicuous. Ovary globose, base filling calyx tube, but not immersed in disk, 2-loculed;

Drupe purple-red, blackish at maturity, globose or obovoid, ca. 5 mm, ca. 4 mm in diam. , with persistent calyx tube at base, with 3 stones;

Drupe purple or black-purple at maturity, obovoid-globose or globose, 5-6 mm in diam. , with 2 stones, with persistent calyx tube at base;

Fertile flowers with calyx tube campanulate, ca. 1 mm;

Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at ca. middle of calyx tube;

Ovary semi-inferior, only upper conic part free above adnate calyx tube, 1-loculed;

Calyx tube obconical, 6-7 mm, with narrow annulus at junction with lobes, glabrous;

Calyx tube shortly tubular, ca. 5 mm, swollen at middle;

Calyx tube tubular, slightly 4-angled, ca. 6 mm, slightly enlarged below lobes;

Drupe dark brown, blackish at maturity, globose, ca. 4 mm in diam. , with 3 or 4 stones, with persistent calyx tube at base;

Drupe (immature) subglobose, ca. 3 mm in diam. , base with shallow dish-shaped calyx tube, with 2 one-seeded stones;

Fruiting calyx tube ca. 1 cm, slightly ribbed;

Calyx tube tubular, 8-10 mm, abruptly constricted above ovary;

Drupe black at maturity, obovoid-globose, 4-6 mm in diam. , with persistent calyx tube at base, with 2 stones;

Drupe black, globose or obovoid-globose, 5-6 mm in diam. , with 2 stones, with persistent calyx tube at base;

Fertile flowers with calyx tube campanulate, ca. 1. 5 mm, pilose;

Calyx tube campanulate, 1-1. 3 cm, membranous, broadly winged, pubescent along wings;

Drupe reddish when mature, globose, 2- or 3-grooved longitudinally, glabrous, with 2 or 3 stones, with persistent calyx tube at base;

Calyx tube campanulate, 4-angled, 4-5 mm, abruptly constricted at base, inside glabrous;

Drupe black at maturity, globose, 4-6 mm in diam. , with persistent calyx tube at base and minute apical mucro, with 2 or 3 stones;

Calyx tube tubular, 4-4. 5 mm, conspicuously constricted above ovary;

Calyx tube turbinate, ca. 3 mm;

Calyx tube (1-)1. 5-2 mm, smooth or longitudinally ribbed, outside pubescent, hairs spreading, long;

Drupe bluish black, subglobose, with persistent calyx tube at base, 4-5 mm in diam. , with 2 stones;

Drupe black or purple-black, subglobose or obovoid-globose, 4-6 mm in diam. , with (1 or)2 stones, with persistent calyx tube at base;

Drupe black at maturity, obovoid-globose, 6-7 mm, ca. 5 mm in diam. , with 2(or 3) stones, with persistent calyx tube at base;

Fruit a single-stoned, (1 or)2- or 3-loculed, globose or oblong drupe, base with persistent calyx tube, apex mucronulate;

Drupe red-brown, subglobose, 3-4 mm in diam. , with shallowly cup-shaped, persistent calyx tube at base, with 2(or 3) stones;

Capsule ovoid-globose to subglobose, 3-4 mm in diam. , projected apical part conical, 1. 5-2 mm, shorter than calyx tube;

Calyx tube campanulate, 4-angled, (3-)4 mm, 2-2. 5 mm in diam. at mouth, conspicuously constricted above ovary;

Drupe solitary in axils of leaves, subovoid-globose, 1-1. 5 cm, 9-12 mm in diam. , base with persistent calyx tube, apex mucronulate;