Coleonema rubrum

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

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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
        Genus: Coleonema ()
        Specific epithet: rubrum - Druce
        Botanical name: - Coleonema rubrum Druce

Notes

Publishing author : Druce Publication : in Rep. Bot. Exch. Cl. Brit . Isles, 1916, 616 (1917)

Similar Species

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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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Contributors

The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10786353
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15827320
Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:772198-1
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 772198-1
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1395846