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Comprehensive Description
Description
Dioecious trees. Leaves pinnately-veined, densely puberulous below on the reticulate venation. Stipules semi-amplexicaul, free. Inflorescences borne in leaf axils, unisexual, with both the male and female in the form of a spike. Male flowers with 4 tepals and stamens. Female flowers: tepals 4; stigmas 2, markedly unequal; fruiting perianth enlarged and fleshy, Fruit drupaceous.
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
| Specimen Records: | 14 | Public Records: | 0 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 16 | Public Species: | 0 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 15 | Public BINs: | 0 |
| Species: | 3 | ||
| Species With Barcodes: | 2 | ||
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Locations of barcode samples
Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Milicia
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Wikipedia
Milicia (genus)
Milicia is a small genus of tropical African trees. There are two recognized species, which are closely related: Milicia excelsa and Milicia regia.[2] These trees yield a durable wood, iroko.
Milicia excelsa is currently listed as 'lower risk/near threatened' on the IUCN Red List.[3]
References
- ^ Klaus Kubitzki, Karl Ulrich Kramer, Herbert Huber, P. S. Green (1990), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, 2, Springer, pp. 446
- ^ D.A. Ofori, M.D. Swaine, C. Leifert, J.R. Cobbinah and A.H. Price (December 2001), "Population genetic structure of Milicia species characterised by using RAPD and nucleotide sequencing L.", Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 48 (6): 637–647, doi:10.1023/A:1013805807957
- ^ "The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species: Milicia excelsa", The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species
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