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Securinega suffruticosa (Pall.) Rehd.

Modern name

Flueggea suffruticosa (Pall.) Baill.

Synonyms

Pharnaceum suffruticosum Pall.; S. ramiflora (Ait.) Muell.-Arg.; Xylophylla ramiflora Ait.

A deciduous shrub, 3 to 5 ft high, with erect stems and long, graceful, slender, horizontal branches, all the parts devoid of down. Leaves alternate, oval, or slightly obovate, 34 to 2 in. long, 13 to 1 in. wide, mostly blunt or rounded at the apex, margin minutely undulated; dull green above, pale, rather glaucous beneath; stalk 18 in. long. Plants unisexual; flowers greenish yellow, very small (110 in. across), produced during August and September in the leaf-axils of the current year’s growth. The male flowers are densely packed a dozen or more together, opening successively; each flower on a stalk 110 in. long; sepals and stamens five. The longer-stalked female flowers are borne singly in the leaf-axils. The seed-vessel, borne on a stalk 14 to 12 in. long, is about the size of a peppercorn, three-celled, the calyx adherent at the base.

Native of N.E. Asia, including China, Manchuria, and Siberia; introduced from the last named in 1783. It flowers very freely, but has little to recommend it except its graceful habit.


Genus

Securinega

Other species in the genus

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