Common Names
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Common Names in Chinese:
Ji Ji Shu
Common Names in English:
Fukien Tea, Philippine Tea, Scorpionbush
Description
Genus Carmona
Shrubs
or small trees
. Leaves small, petiolate
, alternate on annual
twigs
, fascicled on dwarf
shoots
, scabrous
, adaxially white spotted, margin
coarsely dentate
. Inflorescences axillary
, usually 2-6-flowered in widely spaced glomerules
. Calyx 5-parted; lobes
spreading
. Corolla white; tube
short; throat
unappendaged; lobes spreading. Stamens exserted. Style terminal
on ovary, 2-cleft nearly to base
, ca.
as long as corolla, persistent
, beaked
in fruit; stigmas 2, capitate. Drupes red or yellow, subglobose; endocarp bony, entire at maturity, 4-seeded.
One species: China, Indonesia, Japan; Australia.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Tree , Shrub
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Family:
Incurvarioidea
()
- Subfamily:
Boraginoideae
()
- Genus:
Carmona
()
- Cavanilles, Icon. 5: 22. 1799.
- Suncup
- Specific epithet:
retusa
- (Vahl) Masamune
- Botanical name: - Carmona retusa (Vahl) Masamune
- Specific epithet:
retusa
- (Vahl) Masamune
- Genus:
Carmona
(
- Subfamily:
Boraginoideae
(
- Family:
Incurvarioidea
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
. Latest taxonomic
scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Place of publication
: Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Taiwan 30:61. 1940
Name verified on 29-Nov-1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 22-May-1997
Similar Species
Members of the genus Carmona
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
C. heterophylla · C. lycioides · C. microphylla (Fujian Tea) · C. retusa (Philippine Tea) · C. viminea
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Further Reading
- Bennett, M. 2003. Pulmonarias and the Borage family. (Pulmonaria) 194.
- Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
- Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust) [= Ehretia microphylla (Lam.) G. Don].
- Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
- Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. (F Japan) [= C. microphylla (Lam.) G. Don].
- Liu, H. Y. 1998. An enumeration of Taiwan Boraginaceae. Taiwania 43:124.
- Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 12(1):176.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 26, 2008)
- USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
- National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea
- Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility: Magnoliophyta
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2671506
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-507682
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:246403-3
- GRIN Nomen Number: 407012
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 507682
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 246403-3
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CARE22
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 28598
Footnotes
- "Carmona". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 337. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
