Calyptranthes paniculata

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Myrtaceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen , usually with essential oils-containing cavities in foliage , branchlets , and flowers. Stipules absent or small and caducous . Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, occasionally ternate or pseudo-whorled; leaf blade with secondary veins pinnate or basal, often with intramarginal veins near margin , margin usually entire. Inflorescences axillary or terminal , cymose but variously arranged, 1- to many-flowered. Flowers bisexual , sometimes polygamous, actinomorphic . Hypanthium usually adnate to ovary and prolonged above it. Calyx lobes (3 or) 4 or 5 or more, distinct or connate into a calyptra. Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, distinct or connate into a calyptra, sometimes coherent and pseudocalyptrate. Stamens usually numerous , in 1 to several whorls; filaments distinct or connate into 5 bundles opposite petals; anthers 2-celled, dorsifixed or basifixed , dehiscing longitudinally or rarely terminally; connectives usually terminating in 1 or more apical glands . Ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or very rarely superior, carpels 2 to more, locules 1 to many, pseudoseptum sometimes present, placentation usually axile but occasionally parietal ; ovules 1 to several per locule. Style single; stigma single. Fruit a capsule, berry, drupaceous berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds without endosperm or endosperm sparse and thin; testa cartilaginous or thinly membranous, sometimes absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 130 genera and 4500-5000 species: Mediterranean region, sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, tropical and temperate Asia, Australia, Pacific islands, tropical and South America; 10 genera (five introduced ) and 121 species (50 endemic, 32 introduced treated here) in China.

Many Myrtaceae are cultivated garden ornamentals , street trees, or plantation trees. Some members of tribe Syzygieae are grown as fruit crops. In addition to the cultivated members of the family treated here, some others grown in China include Acca sellowiana (O. Berg ) Burrett (Feijoa sellowiana (O. Berg) O. Berg), Myrtus communis Linnaeus, and Syncarpia glomulifera (Smith) Niedenzu.[1]

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Chytraculia Paniculata • Chytraculia paniculata Kuntze

Notes

Publishing author : Ruiz & Pav. Publication : Fl. Peruv. [Ruiz & Pavon] 4: t. 424

Similar Species

Members of the genus Calyptranthes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. acevedoi (Puerto Rico Mountainbay) · C. estremenae (Las Cuevas Mountainbay) · C. kiaerskovii (Kiaerskov's Lidflower) · C. krugii (Limoncillo) · C. luquillensis (Luquillo Forest Lidflower) · C. martorellii (Martorell's Lidflower) · C. pallens (Pale Lidflower) · C. peduncularis (Maricao Lidflower) · C. portoricensis (Puerto Rico Lidflower) · C. sintenisii (Limoncillo De Monte) · C. thomasiana (Thomas' Lidflower) · C. triflora (Threeblossom Lidflower) · C. woodburyi (Woodbury's Lidflower) · C. zuzygium (Myrtle-Of-The-River)

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Further Reading

• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 30 1984-1986 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 269.
• Flora of Peru. 13 1958 [Chicago]Field Museum of Natural History, 1958. url p. 606.
• Sturtevant's notes on edible plants / Edited by U.P. Hedrick. Albany: J.B. Lyon, 1919. url p. 127.
• 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. 622.
• Travels of Ruiz, Pavón, and Dombey in Peru and Chile (1777-1788) / by Hipólito Ruiz; with an epilogue and official documents added by Agustín Jesús Barreiro; translation by B.E. Dahlgren. 21 1940 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1940. url p. 178.
• Tropical American Myrtaceae; notes on generic concepts and descriptions of previously unrecognized species. 29 1956 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1956. url p. 181.
• Chang Hung-ta & Miau Ru-hwai. 1984. Myrtaceae. In: Chen Chieh, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 28-135.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 15, 2008:

• Arizona State University, International Institute for Species Exploration: Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• Herbier de la Guyane
• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8381787
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-32520
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15640356
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:591751-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 591749-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1089411

Footnotes

1. Jie Chen & Lyn A. Craven "Myrtaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 321. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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