Itoa
genus of plants
Itoa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Salicaceae and the tribe Saliceae.
Its native range is southern China to Vietnam, central and eastern Malesia to New Guinea. It is found in China (Hainan), Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Sulawesi and Vietnam.
Description
An evergreen tree with broad leaves, that are alternate, sometimes sub-opposite placed. The leaf blade is pinnate-veined with lateral veins closely set, mostly 1-2 cm apart.
The yellow buff flowers, are unisexual, hypogynous (borne below the ovary), The staminate flowers (male flower, flower with stamens but no pistil) are in erect, terminal panicles. The pistillate flowers (a flower containing one or more pistils but no stamens, female flower) has 1 to few in short terminal or axillary racemes. It has bracts and the bracteoles (small bracts) are a pair per pedicel, usually caducous (falling off early). The sepals appearing 3 or 4-merous in bud, in fact to 5-merous at anthesis (at time of flowering), nearly free, valvate, ovate shaped, with base appearing to be cordate (heart-shaped). The staminate flowers have many stamens with filaments free and filiform (thread-like).
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2029578. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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