Description
Family Rutaceae
The Rutaceae are herbs, shrubs , and trees with glandular punctate , commonly strongly smelling herbage comprising about 150 genera and 1,500 species that are further characterized by the common occurrence of spines and winged petioles . The leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound , or sometimes heathlike or reduced to spines; stipules are absent. The flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual , and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. The calyx consists of 3-5 distinct or basally connate sepals and the corolla consists of 3-5 distinct or sometimes connate petals or rarely the petals are lacking. The androecium consists of distinct or sometimes connate stamens that are commonly obdiplostemonous , that is in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals. However, sometimes there may be (1)3-4 whorls or rarely up to 60 stamens. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of commonly 2-5 or more, often incompletely connate carpels that may be united only basally or apically, either one or an equal number of styles , and a superior ovary with usually 2-5 or more locules, each bearing 1-several axile ovules. Generally, an intrastaminal nectary disk is situated between the stamens and the ovary. The fruit is variable. -- Gerald Carr.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- 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
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Bartl. & Wendl.f. Publication : Diosm. 56 (1824).An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Coleonema
There are approximately 20 species in this genus:
C. 'Pinkii' (Breath of Heaven) · C. 'Sunset Gold' · C. album · C. arenifera · C. aspalathoides · C. barosmoides · C. calycinum · C. dregeanum · C. filiforme · C. gracile · C. juniperifolium · C. juniperinum · C. nubigena · C. pulchellum (Confetti Bush) · C. pulchellum 'Sunset Gold' (Breath of Heaven) · C. pulchrum (Pink Breath of Heaven) · C. pulchrum 'Golden Sunset' · C. rubrum · C. virgatum · C. virginianum
Bibliography
- Judd, Campbell, Kellog & Donoghue: Plant Systematics, a phylogenetic approach
- Judd, W.S., Campbell, C.S., Kellog, E.A. & Donoghue, M.J. (2002): Plant Systematics: a phylogenetic approach, Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass.
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed August 10, 2006. 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 March 16, 2008:
- Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem: Staatliches Museum fĂ¼r Naturkunde Stuttgart, Herbarium
- GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8524764
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15827308
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:772187-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 772186-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 727854
