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Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil Author Oliveira, Ana Carla da Silva https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7042-5360 Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil Author Rando, Juliana Gastaldello https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3714-8231 Programa de Pos-graduacao em Ciencias Ambientais, Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia, Rua Professor Jose Seabra Lemos 316, 47800 - 021, Barreiras, Bahia, Brazil Author Ribeiro, Petala Gomes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0070-9971 Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil Author Ribeiro, Carolina Lima https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9508-2894 Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Av. 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Transnordestina s / n, Campus, Novo Horizonte. 44036 - 900, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil Author Seigler, David S. https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5177-5893 Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA Author da Silva, Guilherme Sousa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4250-0017 Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, 13083 - 876, Sao Paulo / SP, Brazil Author Simon, Marcelo F. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5732-1716 Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (Embrapa) Recursos Geneticos e Biotecnologia, Parque Estacao Biologica, Caixa Postal 02372, 70770 - 917, Brasilia / DF, Brazil Author Soares, Marcos Vinicius Batista https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2660-1771 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Botanica, Av. Bento Goncalves 9500, Bloco IV - Predio 43433, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501 - 970, Brazil Author Terra, Vanessa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5669-1304 Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 97105 - 900, Santa Maria / RS, Brazil text PhytoKeys 2024 2024-04-03 240 1 552 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.240.101716 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.240.101716 1314-2003-240-1 B699D9DE2B435B1093DE3C38C703D430 Alantsilodendron Villiers, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia 16: 65. 1994. Figs 144 , 145 , 146 , 160 Type . Alantsilodendron villosum (R. Vig.) Villiers [≡ Dichrostachys villosa R. Vig.] Description. Unarmed (weak thorns in one species) shrubs or small treelets (Fig. 144L ), 1-5 m, much-branched from base, branches often plagiotropic; brachyblasts present, usually clothed in distichous or spirally arranged rows of persistent or caducous stipule bases. Stipules monomorphic, striate, ovate. Leaves bipinnate, extrafloral nectary between lower pair, and sometimes more distal pinnae; pinnae 1-7 pairs (10-50 in one species); leaflets 2-20 pairs per pinna (30-50 in one species), linear to ovate, base truncate. Inflorescence usually a capitulum (Fig. 145I ), occasionally a condensed spike, usually solitary in leaf axils of new growth or more often on short shoots, flowers usually lacking a pseudopedicel; bracteoles subtending individual flowers carinate, 1-nerved; inflorescence composed usually entirely of hermaphrodite flowers but some species with sterile flowers proximally, fertile flowers distally, and often a few functionally staminate flowers in between. Flowers with sepals and petals valvate in bud; sterile flowers with a 5-lobed or entire calyx, fused 1/2-3/4 its length, each lobe with a central raised nerve; petals 5, connate, each petal 1-3 nerved, staminodia 10, filamentous, white; functionally staminate flowers similar to fertile ones but either lacking an ovary or having only a rudimentary one; bisexual flowers similar to sterile ones but larger, with a 5-lobed calyx and 5 connate petals (free in one species), usually linear or lanceolate, 1-3 nerved; stamens 8-10, filaments exserted at anthesis, anthers either with a terminal apiculum or lacking an apical gland; pollen of 8- or 16-grained calymmate or acalymmate polyads, grains shed as tetrads if acalymmate, exine verrucate or psilate; ovary ovate, sessile, densely pilose or pubescent, style exserted (rarely included) at anthesis, stigma porate to broad funnelform. Fruits sessile, terete when immature, dorsiventrally compressed at maturity, either inertly dehiscent or more often elastically dehiscent from the apex, the valves recurved but not coiling after dehiscence (Fig. 146Q ), pericarp woody in elastically dehiscent species, coriaceous in inertly dehiscent ones, sutural ribs often greatly thickened, interior of pod usually invaginated between seeds. Seeds obliquely or laterally positioned in the fruit, ovate to rhomboidal, pleurogram either U-shaped or forming nearly a complete oval. Chromosome number. Unknown. Included species and geographic distribution. Eleven species, in southern, western, and far northern Madagascar (Fig. 160 ). Figure 160. Distribution of Alantsilodendron based on quality-controlled digitised herbarium records. See Suppl. material 1 for the source of occurrence data. Ecology. Restricted to seasonal xerophytic deciduous woodlands and scrub, especially in the spiny forests of south-western Madagascar, deciduous in long dry season. Etymology. From alantsili -, the Madagascan name for dry forest, and - dendron (Greek = tree) in reference to the distribution of the genus restricted to dry forest. Human uses. Unknown. Notes. Alantsilodendron is closely related to Dichrostachys and Gagnebina (Fig. 143 ) but differs in having fused petals, and typically a capitate inflorescence lacking staminodial flowers. The current non-monophyly of Alantsilodendron (Fig. 143 ) will be dealt with in a forthcoming monograph (see Dichrostachys and Dichrostachys clade notes for more details). Taxonomic references. Villiers (1994 , 2002 ), both including illustrations.