Clethra crispa

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Clethraceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen or deciduous. Buds, branches, leaf blades , inflorescences, and flowers with sparse to dense usually stellate hairs , often mixed with simple hairs. Branches sympodial, usually pubescent at least when young. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, simple, generally crowded near apex of twigs ; leaf blade usually abaxially ± pubescent and adaxially glabrous or glabrescent , margin serrate or occasionally entire. Inflorescences terminal , usually a many-flowered slender raceme , either solitary or umbellate-clustered, sometimes sparsely branched near base and thus appearing paniculate , pubescent, bracteate . Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic . Pedicel articulated at base of sepals. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent . Petals 5, usually white, free or coherent at base, oblong to obovate , inside often pilose from base to middle , apical margin often fimbriate, apex rounded- to truncate-emarginate. Stamens 10, in 2 whorls, distinct but generally adnate to base of petals; anthers inverted at anthesis , ± V-shaped, introrse , papillose , opening by short apical pores . Ovary superior, 3-locular, globose but apically depressed at style base, pubescent, with axile placentation ; ovules 20-40 per locule. Style 1, persistent, apex usually 3-cleft or -lobed. Capsule subglobose to globose, pubescent, 3-locular. Seeds many, ovoid-subtrigonous, thin-walled, surface impressed-reticulate.

One genus and ca. 65 species: America, Asia, N Atlantic Islands (Madeira ) ; seven species (three endemic) in China.[1]

Genus Clethra

Morphological characters and geographic distribution are the same as for the family .

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Habitat

Ecology: In areas of montane and upper montane cloud forest .[3].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.7     Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : C.Gust. Publication : Fl. Ecuador 45: 19, fig. 7 1992

Similar Species

Members of the genus Clethra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 26 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. acuminata (Cinnamon Clethra) · C. alnifolia (Coast Pepper-Bush) · C. alnifolia 'Anne Bidwell' (Summersweet Clethra) · C. alnifolia 'Ann Bidewell' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Chattanooga' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Compacta' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Cottondale' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Fern Valley Late Sweet' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Fern Valley Pink' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Hokie Pink' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Hummingbird' (Hummingbird Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Novia Scotia' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Paniculata' (Paniculata Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Pink Spires' (Pink Spires Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Rosea' (Pink Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Ruby Spice' (Ruby Spice Summer Sweet) · C. alnifolia 'September Beauty' (September Beauty Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Sherry Sue' (Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'Sixteen Candles' (Dwarf Summersweet) · C. alnifolia'Sweet Suzanne' (Sweet Suzanne Summersweet) · C. alnifolia 'White Dove' (Summersweet) · C. arborea (Folhado) · C. barbinervis (Japanese Clethra) · C. delavayi (Delavay Summersweet) · C. monostachya (Clethra) · C. pringlei (Mexican Summersweet)

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Further Reading

• IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
• Jørgensen, P.M. and Ulloa Ulloa, C. 1994. Seed Plants of the High Andes of Ecuador - a Checklist. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
• Jrgensen, P.M. and Ulloa Ulloa, C. 1994. Seed Plants of the High Andes of Ecuador - a Checklist. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark and Departamento de Ciencias Biolgicas, Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador.
• Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
• Hu Lingcheng. 1990. Clethraceae. In: Fang Wenpei & Hu Wenkuang, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 56: 120-156.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed May 1, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Romero-Saltos, H. & Pitman, N. 2004. Clethra crispa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5987005
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:970649-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 305336-2
• IUCN ID: 200869
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1024982

Footnotes

1. Haining Qin & Peter Fritsch "Clethraceae". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 238. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Clethra". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 238. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Romero-Saltos, H. & Pitman, N. 2004. Clethra crispa. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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