Trichocladus [SEP] parent taxon
Trichocladus
Trichocladus is a genus of plant in family Hamamelidaceae, consisting of shrubs or small trees. The distinguishing features of the genus "Trichocladus" are as follows:
- Branches and leaves are often covered in dense, velvet-like, stellate hairs.
- Leaves are simple, alternate or opposite, and paler beneath, with inconspicuous stipules.
- Flowers are borne in dense, spherical heads, with floral parts in 4s or 5s. Sepals are fused together, forming a tube. Petals are long and
narrow. "Trichocladus" flowers closely resemble those of the genus "Hamamelis" and are hermaphroditic or sexually separate, with male and female parts being borne on different flowers, either on the same plant of different plants (either monoecious or dioecious).
- Fruits consist of a two-valved capsule which appears to be 4-valved at its apex.
Species.
Species include:
- "Trichocladus crinitus", (Thunb.) Pers.
- "Trichocladus dentatus", Hutch.
- "Trichocladus