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Description
Family Dipterocarpaceae
Trees
, evergreen
or semievergreen, rarely deciduous in dry season
. Xylem with aromatic
resin in intercellular
resin canals. Branchlets
with stipular
scars
, sometimes annular
. Leaves simple
, alternate; stipules persistent
or caducous
, large or small; leaf blade
with lateral
veins pinnate, margin
entire or sinuate-crenate. Inflorescences few- or many-flowered, terminal
or axillary
racemes
or panicles; flowers usually sweetly scented; bracts usually fugacious
and minute, rarely persistent and large. Inflorescences, calyces, petals, ovary, and other parts usually with stellate
, squamate
, fascicled or free-standing hairs
. Flowers bisexual
, actinomorphic
, contorted. Calyx lobes
5, free
or united
at base
, imbricate in bud if not united. Petals 5, adnate
or connate
at base. Stamens (10-) 15 to many, free from or connate to petals; filaments
usually dilated
at base; anthers
2-celled, with 2 pollen sacs
per cell
(Chinese species) ; connective
appendages
aristate
, filiform
or stout. Ovary superior, rarely semi-inferior, slightly immersed
in torus, usually 3-loculed, each locule 2-, rarely many ovuled; ovules pendulous, lateral or anatropous
. Fruit usually nutlike, sometimes capsular
and 3-valved, 1(to many) -seeded, with persistent, variously accrescent
calyx of which 2 or more lobes are usually developed into lorate
wings
. Seed exalbuminous
; cotyledons fleshy
, equal or unequal, applanate
or folded or cerebriform
, entire or laciniate
; radicle directed toward hilum
, usually included
between cotyledons.
About 17 genera and 550 species: tropical
Africa, Asia, and South America (in Asia, most species and genera in NW Borneo) ; five genera and 12 species (one endemic, one introduced
) in China.[1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Ecology: A species which occurs in mixed dipterocarp forest , mainly on coastal hills and inland ridges .[2].
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:
Malvanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Theales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Dipterocarpaceae
()
- Blume, 1825
- Subfamily:
Dipterocarpoideae
()
- Tribe:
Dipterocarpeae
()
- Genus:
Anisoptera
()
- P.W. Korthals, in Temminck, 1841
- Specific epithet:
curtisii
- Dyer ex King
- Botanical name: - Anisoptera curtisii Dyer ex King
- Specific epithet:
curtisii
- Dyer ex King
- Genus:
Anisoptera
(
- Tribe:
Dipterocarpeae
(
- Subfamily:
Dipterocarpoideae
(
- Family:
Dipterocarpaceae
(
- Order:
Theales
(
- Superorder:
Malvanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Dyer ex King Publication : in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxii. (1893) ii. 100
Similar Species
Members of the genus Anisoptera
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Further Reading
- A bibliographic enumeration of Bornean plants, by E. D. Merrill. Singapore, Printed by Fraser & Neave, ltd., 1921 url p. 400, p. 400.
- An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 92.
- Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url p. 400.
- Bulletin. Manila, Bureau of printing, 1903- url p. 111, p. 15, p. 163, p. 255, p. 266, p. 267, p. 269, p. 78.
- Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url p. 251, p. 270, p. 328, p. 329, p. 331, p. 334, p. 575.
- Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1992 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 1249, p. 831.
- Pre-project study on the conservation status of tropical timbers in trade. Final report to International Tropical Timber Organization. Vol 1 ITTO url p. 210.
- The Philippine journal of science. 22 1923 Manila. url plate 15, p. 166, p. 168, p. 172, p. 181, p. 211, p. 258, p. 27, p. 324, p. 343, plate XLI.
- The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 57.
- Tong Shaoquan & Tao Gouda. 1990. Dipterocarpaceae. In: Li Hsiwen, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 50(2): 113-131.
Notes
Contributors
- Ashton, P. 1998. Anisoptera curtisii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
- Ashton, P. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5883583
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:320548-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 320548-1
- IUCN ID: 191201
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1021217
Footnotes
- Xi-wen Li, Jie Li & Peter S. Ashton "Dipterocarpaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 48. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Ashton, P. 1998. Anisoptera curtisii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
