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
- Superorder:
Rutanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Rutales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Suborder:
Rutineae
()
- Family:
Rutaceae
()
- Durande, 1782, Nom. Cons.
- Rue Family
- Subfamily:
Pyroideae
()
- Tribe:
Crataegeae
()
- Genus:
Coleonema
()
- M.J. Roemer, 1847
- Specific epithet:
calycinum
- (Steud.) I.Williams
- Botanical name: - Coleonema calycinum (Steud.) I.Williams
- Specific epithet:
calycinum
- (Steud.) I.Williams
- Genus:
Coleonema
(
- Tribe:
Crataegeae
(
- Subfamily:
Pyroideae
(
- Family:
Rutaceae
(
- Suborder:
Rutineae
(
- Order:
Rutales
(
- Superorder:
Rutanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Basionym : Rutaceae Diosma calycina Steud.Basionym author : (Steud.) 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
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Notes
Contributors
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8524790
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15827311
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:908562-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 908562-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1395839
