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Description
Family Loganiaceae
Trees
, shrubs
, woody climbers
, or herbs, sometimes epiphytic, sometimes with axillary
spines or tendrils
. Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, rarely verticillate
, fasciculate, or in a whorl; stipules usually present, often reduced to lines
connecting petiole
bases
, sometimes reduced to petiolar
ocrea or a connate
leaf-sheath; leaf blade
usually entire, pinnately veined or 3--7-veined from base. Flowers in cymes, these often grouped into thyrses
; cymes sometimes umbel-like, scorpioid or reduced to a single flower; bracts usually small. Flowers usually bisexual
. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed; lobes
free
or connate, mostly persistent
, imbricate or valvate
. Corolla sympetalous
; lobes 4 or 5(--16), valvate, imbricate or contorted in bud. Stamens inserted
on corolla, included
to exserted, equal in number to corolla lobes and alternating with them or sometimes fewer; filaments
free, much shorter to much longer
than anthers
; anthers basifixed
, 2--4-locular, dehiscing introrsely or extrorsely by longitudinal
slits, base slightly to deeply parted
. Disc ring-shaped or not. Ovary superior or rarely semi-inferior, (1- or) 2(--4) -locular, placentation axillary or parietal
; ovules 1 to many per locule. Style simple
, terminal
, persistent or deciduous; stigma usually capitate, entire or shortly 2--4-cleft. Fruit a capsule, berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds sometimes winged
; endosperm fleshy
or horny
; embryo minute, straight; cotyledons small.
Some 29 genera and about 500 species: mainly in tropical
and subtropical
regions of the world, absent from Europe; eight genera and 45 species (ten endemic) in China.[1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Ecology:
Occurs in disturbed
submontane forest
, 800–1,200 m
alt[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland [more info]
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:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Gentiananae
()
- Thorne Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Gentianales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Loganiaceae
()
- R. Brown ex C. Martius, 1827
- loganias
- Tribe:
Potalieae
()
- Subtribe:
Potaliinae
()
- Genus:
Anthocleista
()
- Afzelius ex R. Brown, in Tuckey, 1818
- Specific epithet:
microphylla
- Wernham
- Botanical name: - Anthocleista microphylla Wernham
- Specific epithet:
microphylla
- Wernham
- Genus:
Anthocleista
(
- Subtribe:
Potaliinae
(
- Tribe:
Potalieae
(
- Family:
Loganiaceae
(
- Order:
Gentianales
(
- Superorder:
Gentiananae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Wernham Publication : Cat. Pl. Oban 67 1913 [Jun 1913]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Anthocleista
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. amplexicaulis (Anthocleista) · A. grandiflora (Cabbage Tree)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 370.
- Catalogue of the plants collected by Mr. & Mrs. P.A. Talbot in the Oban district, South Nigeria / by A.B. Rendle. .. [et al.]. London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1913. url p. 136, p. 155.
- Li Ping-tao in Chang Mei-chen & Qiu Lian-qing, eds. 1992. Loganiaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 61: 223-309.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Cheek, M. 2004. Anthocleista microphylla. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5989149
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15584396
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:545632-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 545632-1
- IUCN ID: 191514
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1028841
Footnotes
- Bingtao Li & Antony J. M. Leeuwenberg "Loganiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 320. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Cheek, M. 2004. Anthocleista microphylla. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
