Ouratea
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Ouratea (vernacular name in Guiana). Syn. Gomphia. Ochnaceae. Tropical American shrubs and trees of minor importance horticulturally but sometimes grown for the yellow mostly paniculate fls. and evergreen foliage; glabrous: Lvs. shining, stiff, alternate, serrate or toothed: sepals and petals 5; receptacle or torus prolonged into a gynophore; stamens 10, attached on base of torus, erect and connivent, the filaments very short; ovary deeply 5- or 6-parted: fr. 5 or less drupes, sessile on the enlarged torus or disk. O. cuspidata, Engler (Gomphia cuspidata, St. Hil.), from Brazil, is mentioned in horticultural literature abroad: shrub 3-6 ft.: Lvs. alternate, elliptic, to 6 in. long, minutely toothed: fls. yellow, about½ in. across, in a terminal simple or branched panicle; petals obovate, more or less crisped. O. olivaeformis, Engler (O. decorans, Baill. Gomphia olivaeformis, St. Hil. G. decorans, Lem.). Tall shrub from Brazil: Lvs. broad-lanceolate, shining, finely serrulate: fls. bright yellow, in a large dense terminal raceme; petals obovate and broad. B.M. 5262. G. 27:325. Gn.62, p.339 (note). J.F. 4:415.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963