View source for Berchemia ← Berchemia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Berchemia |accepted_authority=Necker ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Prodr. |place=2: 22. 1825 |year=1825 }} |common_names=Rattan |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Berchemia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Berchemia]]</div></div> |etymology=For Jacob Pierre Berthoud van Berchem, eighteenth-century Dutch mineralogist and naturalist |volume=Volume 12 |mention_page=page 44, 62, 70 |treatment_page=page 59 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Woody </b>vines [shrubs, trees], tendrils absent, unarmed; bud scales present. <b>Stems</b> twining, glabrous [hairy]. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous [persistent], alternate; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined, secondary, and usually tertiary, veins strongly parallel. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, paniclelike thyrses [corymblike cymes or fascicles]; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> functionally unisexual (plants functionally dioecious) [bisexual]; hypanthium patelliform, cupulate, or hemispheric, 2–3 mm wide; sepals 5, staminate spreading, pistillate erect, greenish, triangular [rarely linear or narrowly lanceolate], keeled adaxially; petals 5, cream or yellowish to greenish white, flat, spatulate to lanceolate, short-clawed; nectary fleshy, 10-lobed, filling hypanthium; stamens 5; ovary superior, 2-locular; style 1. <b>Fruits</b> drupes; stone 1, indehiscent.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=c;e United States;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala);Asia;Africa;tropical to warm temperate regions. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 12 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Berchemia scandens is the only New World species in the genus. The disjunction of B. scandens from the southeastern United States to Chiapas and Guatemala is remarkable but there seem to be no morphological differences.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Berchemia |author=Guy L. Nesom |authority=Necker ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Rhamnaceae |distribution=c;e United States;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala);Asia;Africa;tropical to warm temperate regions. |reference=None |publication title=Prodr. |publication year=1825 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_990.xml |genus=Berchemia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Rhamnaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Rhamnaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Berchemia.