Consortium of Intermountain Herbaria

Phytolaccaceae
Paul Rothrock	VPAP Resources JANAS 33(1) PLANT: Trees, shrubs, or herbs. LEAVES: alternate, simple, the margins entire; stipules wanting or vestigial. INFLORESCENCE: in ours racemes. FLOWERS: mostly perfect, actinomorphic; sepals usually 4 or 5, distinct or fused below; petals absent; stamens 4-many, often in 2 alternating cycles and twice as many as the sepals; pistil superior, 1-many carpellate, the carpels distinct or united, unilocular, the placentae basal; styles and stigmas as many as the carpels. FRUITS: berries or druplets in ours. NOTES: Ca. 18 genera, ca. 125 spp.; cosmopolitan but mainly tropical or subtropical regions, especially diverse in the New World. Nowicke, J. W. 1968. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 55:294-364; Walter, H. 1909. in Das Pflanzenreich IV. 83 [Heft 39]: 1-154. REFERENCES: Steinmann, Victor. 2001. Phytolaccaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
Species within inventory project: Intermountain Regional Herbarium Network Agdestis clematidea Anisomeria littoralis Gallesia integrifolia Hilleria latifolia Ledenbergia macrantha Ledenbergia peruviana Microtea debilis Microtea maypurensis Microtea portoricensis Microtea scabrida Petiveria alliacea Phytolacca americana Phytolacca bogotensis Phytolacca brachystachys Images not available Phytolacca dioica Phytolacca dodecandra Images not available Phytolacca heteropetala Images not available Phytolacca heterotepala Phytolacca icosandra Phytolacca latbenia Phytolacca meziana Phytolacca octandra Phytolacca rigida Phytolacca rivinoides Phytolacca rugosa Phytolacca sandwicensis Phytolacca thyrsiflora Phytolacca vulgaris Images not available Phytolacca weberbaueri Images not available Rivina brasiliensis Rivina humilis Rivina laevis Rivina octandra Schindleria densiflora Seguiera nudiflora Images not available Seguieria americana Seguieria langsdorffii Seguieria parvifolia Trichostigma octandrum Trichostigma peruvianum Trichostigma polyandrum