Phillyrea L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 55

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scientific name	Phillyrea L.
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8. Phillyrea L. View in CoL 1

Evergreen trees or shrubs. Twigs terete. Leaves opposite, simple. Flowers hermaphrodite, in short axillary racemes. Calyx small, more or less 4-lobed. Corolla subrotate, greenish-white, 4-lobed, with the lobes longer than wide and imbricate in bud. Stamens epipetalous; anthers large, exserted; filaments short; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a dry bluish-black drupe with a crustaceous endocarp.

Literature: C. Sébastian, Trav. Inst. Sci. Chérif Sér. Bot., 6:

1 -100 (1956).

Leaves all similar, with 4-6 pairs of distant, nearly obsolete veins; calyx with short, rounded lobes; drupe apiculate 1. angustifolia

Leaves dimorphic, with 7-11 pairs of close, usually distinct veins; calyx with triangular lobes; drupe muticous 2. latifolia