Cordia nodosa

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Interesting Facts

Description

Family Boraginaceae

Herbs perennial , biennial, or annual , less often lianas, shrubs , or trees , usually bristly or scabrous-pubescent. Leaves simple , exstipulate , alternate, rarely opposite, entire or serrate at margin . Inflorescences often double scorpioid cymes, rarely solitary; bracts present or absent. Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic , rarely zygomorphic. Calyx usually 5-parted or lobed , mostly persistent . Corolla tubular , campanulate , rotate, funnelform , or salverform ; tube appendages 5, rarely more, mostly trapeziform, rarely absent, sometimes a ring of hairs present; limb usually 5-parted; lobes overlapping, rarely twisted in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on corolla tube or rarely at throat , included or rarely exserted; anthers introrse , 2-loculed, usually dorsifixed at base , less often medifixed , dehiscence longitudinal . Nectaries at base of corolla tube or on disc below ovary. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate; locules 2 and each with 2 ovules, or 4 and each with 1 ovule; ovules nearly atropous , semianatropous, or anatropous . Style terminal or gynobasic , branched or not. Gynobase flat, fastigiate , or subulate . Fruit 1-4-seeded drupes or nutlets (mericarps) ; nutlets mostly dry, often ornamented with wings , prickles and/or glochids (stiff bristles with barbed or anchorlike tips ) . Seeds vertical or oblique , coat membranous; embryo straight, less often curved ; cotyledons flat, fleshy .

About 156 genera and 2500 species: temperate and tropical regions , centered in the Mediterranean region; 47 genera and 294 species in China, of which four genera and 156 species are endemic.[1]

Genus Cordia

Trees or shrubs . Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, usually evidently petiolate , margin entire or serrate, rarely lobed . Cymes mostly corymbose , ebracteate . Flowers bisexual , frequently heterostylous or ± functionally unisexual . Calyx tubular or campanulate , enlarged after anthesis , persistent . Corolla white, yellow, or orange-red, campanulate to funnelform , usually (4- or) 5(-8) -lobed; lobes antrorse or recurved. Stamens usually well developed; filaments often pubescent at base . Ovary 4-loculed, glabrous ; ovule 1 per locule. Style twice 2-cleft, each branch with a spatulate or capitate stigma. Drupes ovoid , globose , or ellipsoid , frequently with watery or sticky fleshy mesocarp and bony endocarp, rarely with corky mesocarp or nutlike without fleshy mesocarp. Seeds 1-4, without endosperm; cotyledons plicate .

About 325 species: mostly in tropics of North and South America, poorly represented in Africa and Asia; five species in China.[2]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[3]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Lam.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cordia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 34 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. alliodora (Cypre) · C. angustifolia (Basora) · C. bahamensis (Bahama Manjack) · C. bellonis (Serpentine Manjack) · C. boissieri (Anacahuita) · C. borinquensis (Muneco) · C. collococca (Clammy Cherry) · C. decandra (Carbonillo) · C. dichotoma (Fragrant Manjack) · C. dodecandra (Canalete) · C. gerascanthus (Yauco) · C. globosa (Bloodberry) · C. globosa var. globosa (Curaciao Bush) · C. globosa var. humilis (Curaciao Bush) · C. laevigata (Glossy Cordia) · C. lima (Lija) · C. lutea (Muyuyo) · C. millenii (Drum Tree) · C. myxa (Assyrian Plum) · C. obliqua (Clammy Cherry) · C. panamensis (Hairy Lay-Lay) · C. parvifolia (Little Leaf Cordia) · C. platythyrsa (West African Cordia) · C. podocephala (Texas Manjack) · C. polycephala (Black-Sage) · C. rickseckeri (San Bartolome) · C. rupicola (Puerto Rican Manjack) · C. salicifolia (Cha De Bugre) · C. sebestena (Aloe Wood) · C. subcordata (Kou) · C. sulcata (Mucilage Manjack) · C. verbenacea (Erva Baleera) · C. wagneriorum (Luquillo Mountain Manjack) · C. wagnerorum (Luquillo Mountain Manjack)

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Further Reading

• A text-book of botany / London; Macmillan, 1898. url .
• Ants; their structure, development and behavior, by William Morton Wheeler. .. New York, Columbia university press, 1910. url , .
• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 28 1980-1982 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 254.
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• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 71.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 90 1942 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 144, p. 156, p. 192, p. 194, p. 201, p. 227, p. 240, p. 245, p. 247, p. 253, article start, page 3, p. 6, p. 7, p. 9, p. 91.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 51 1924 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url p. 361.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 50 2004 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 110, p. 113, p. 117, p. 129, p. 51, p. 62, p. 64, p. 76, p. 83, p. 84, p. 86, p. 88, p. 99.
• Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 1080.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 139.
• Fifty years of botany; golden jubilee volume of the Botanical Society of America, edited by William Campbell Steere. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958. url p. 266.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1960 Chicago, U.S.A.: Field Museum of Natural History, [1936] url p. 585.
• Humboldt; Monatsschrift für die gesamten Naturwissenschaften. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1882-90. url p. 454.
• Journal of Hymenoptera research. Washington, D.C.: International Society of Hymenopterists, [1992- url p. 131, p. 136, p. 189, p. 228, p. 26, p. 29, p. 419, p. 49, p. 53.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 21 2001 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 145, p. 146, p. 28, p. 29, p. 297, p. 305.
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• Plant-geography upon a physiological basis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903. url p. 148, p. 828.
• Psyche. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Entomological Club url p. 133, p. 134, p. 148.
• The Tachigalia ants / by William Morton Wheeler. New York: New York Zoological Society, 1921. url p. 162.
• Timehri. Demerara: "Argosy" url p. 39.
• Woods of northeastern Peru, by Llewelyn Williams. 15 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 433, p. 537, p. 538.
• Zoologica; scientific contributions of the New York Zoological Society. New York. url .
• Wang Wen-tsai, Liu Yu-lan, Zhu Ge-ling, Lian Yong-shan, Wang Jing-quan & Wang Qing-rui in Kung Xian-wu & Wang Wen-tsai, eds. 1989. Boraginaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(2): 1-253.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 21, 2007:

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement
• SysTax, New York Botanical Garden
• SysTax, SysTax

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3438954
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15245104
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:114394-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 114394-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 728805

Footnotes

1. Gelin Zhu, Harald Riedl & Rudolf V. Kamelin "Boraginaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 329. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Cordia". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 331. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 389.110 meters (1,276.608 feet), Standard Deviation = 556.210 based on 823 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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