Interesting Facts
Description
Family Commelinaceae
Herbs annual
or perennial
, sometimes woody at base
. Stems with prominent
nodes and internodes. Leaves alternate, distichous or spirally arranged
, sessile or petiolate
; leaf sheath
prominent, open or closed
; leaf blade simple
, entire. Inflorescence usually of cincinni in panicles or solitary, sometimes shortened into heads
, sometimes sessile with flowers fascicled, sometimes axillary
and penetrating enveloping leaf sheath, rarely flowers solitary and terminal
or axillary. Flowers bisexual
, rarely unisexual
, actinomorphic
or zygomorphic. Sepals 3, free
or connate
only at base, often boat-shaped
or carinate
, sometimes galeate
at apex. Petals (2 or) 3, free, sometimes connate and tubular
at middle
and free at 2 ends ( Cyanotis), sometimes clawed. Stamens 6, free, all or only 2 or 3 fertile
; filaments
glabrous
or torulose
villous
; anthers
parallel or slightly divergent, longitudinally dehiscent
, rarely dehiscent by apical pores
; staminodes 1--3; antherodes 4-lobed and butterflylike, 3-sect, 2-lobed and dumbbell-shaped, or entire. Ovary 3-loculed, or reduced to 2-loculed; ovules 1 to several per locule, orthotropous
. Fruit a loculicidal, 2- or 3-valved capsule, rarely baccate
and indehiscent. Seeds few, large; endosperm copious
; hilum
orbicular
or linear
.
About 40 genera and 650 species: mainly in tropical regions
, fewer species in subtropical
and temperate regions
; 15 genera (two introduced
) and 59 species (12 endemic, three introduced) in China.[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:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Commelinanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Commelinales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Commelinaceae
()
- Mirb., 1804, nom. cons.
- Spiderwort Family
- Genus:
Aploleia
()
- Specific epithet:
multiflora
- (M.Martens & Galeotti) H.E.Moore
- Botanical name: - Aploleia multiflora (M.Martens & Galeotti) H.E.Moore
- Specific epithet:
multiflora
- (M.Martens & Galeotti) H.E.Moore
- Genus:
Aploleia
(
- Family:
Commelinaceae
(
- Order:
Commelinales
(
- Superorder:
Commelinanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Callisia Multiflora • Callisia multiflora (M. Martens & Galeotti) Standl. • Commelina Multiflora • Commelina multiflora M. Martens & Galeotti • Leptocallisia Multiflora
Notes
Publishing author
: H.E.Moore Publication
: Baileya 9: 15 1961
Basionym
author: (M
.Martens & Galeotti)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Aploleia
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Further Reading
- Hong Deyuan. 1997. Commelinaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3) : 69--133.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-XAL)
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8619407
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:171776-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 16483-2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 718777
Footnotes
- Deyuan Hong & Robert A. DeFilipps "Commelinaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 19. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
