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Description
Family Rutaceae
The Rutaceae are herbs, shrubs , and trees with glandular punctate , commonly strongly smelling herbage comprising about 150 genera and 1,500 species that are further characterized by the common occurrence of spines and winged petioles . The leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound , or sometimes heathlike or reduced to spines; stipules are absent. The flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual , and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. The calyx consists of 3-5 distinct or basally connate sepals and the corolla consists of 3-5 distinct or sometimes connate petals or rarely the petals are lacking. The androecium consists of distinct or sometimes connate stamens that are commonly obdiplostemonous , that is in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals. However, sometimes there may be (1)3-4 whorls or rarely up to 60 stamens. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of commonly 2-5 or more, often incompletely connate carpels that may be united only basally or apically, either one or an equal number of styles, and a superior ovary with usually 2-5 or more locules, each bearing 1-several axile ovules. Generally, an intrastaminal nectary disk is situated between the stamens and the ovary. The fruit is variable. -- Gerald Carr.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,036 meters (0 to 3,399 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rutanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Sapindales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Suborder:
Rutineae
()
- Family:
Rutaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- rues, rutacées
- Subfamily:
Toddalioideae
()
- Tribe:
Cusparieae
()
- Genus:
Almeidea
()
- Specific epithet:
rubra
- St.Hil.
- Botanical name: - Almeidea rubra St.Hil.
- Specific epithet:
rubra
- St.Hil.
- Genus:
Almeidea
(
- Tribe:
Cusparieae
(
- Subfamily:
Toddalioideae
(
- Family:
Rutaceae
(
- Suborder:
Rutineae
(
- Order:
Sapindales
(
- Superorder:
Rutanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : St .Hil. Publication : Bull . Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris (1823) 129.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Almeidea
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Further Reading
- Lindley, J. Paxton's flower garden /by Professor Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton. 1 1853 London: Bradbury and Evans, [1850]-1853. url p. 191.
- Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. London: The Society, 1882-1887. url p. 535.
- Proceedings and transactions of the British Entomological and Natural History Society. London, British Entomological and Natural History Society. url p. 4.
- The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 398.
- The Cottage gardener. [London: W.S. Orr, url , p. 223.
- The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen. London: George W. Johnson and Robert Hogg, 1861-1877. url , , p. 555.
- The florist and garden miscellany. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850-1851. url p. 293.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 16, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (May 04, 2008)
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 16, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- The New York Botanical Garden: Species of Eastern Brazil Vascular Plant Specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3472572
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15826105
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:771151-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 2434
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 771151-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1107615
Footnotes
- Mean = 385.590 meters (1,265.059 feet), Standard Deviation = 376.320 based on 29 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
