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Cordia dodecandra

(Canalete)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Canalete, Ziricote

Description

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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]

Physical Description

Habit: Evergreen .

Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February. • Flower Color: yellow

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,457 meters (0 to 4,780 feet).[3]

Biology

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Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : DC.An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Cordia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 634 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. aberrans · C. abyssinica · C. acuminata · C. acunae · C. acuta · C. acutifolia · C. adnata · C. affinis · C. africana · C. alba · C. albilatera · C. aliodora · C. allartii · C. alliodara · C. alliodora (Ecuador Laurel) · C. alliodora var. boliviana · C. alliodora var. glabra · C. alliodora var. tomentosa · C. alnifolia · C. ambigua · C. americana · C. amplifolia · C. anabaptista · C. andersonii · C. anderssoni · C. anderssonii · C. andina · C. andreana · C. angiocarpa · C. angustifolia (Basora) · C. anisophylla · C. appendiculata · C. apurensis · C. araripensis · C. areolata · C. aristeguietae · C. aspera · C. aspera miquelii · C. aspera subsp. kanehirae · C. asperrima · C. asterophora · C. asterothrix · C. atrofusca · C. aubletii · C. aurantiaca · C. avicularis · C. axillaris · C. badaeva · C. badeava · C. bahamensis (Bahama Manjack) · C. bahiensis · C. bakeri · C. balanocarpa · C. banalo · C. bantamensis · C. baracoensis · C. barahonensis · C. barbata · C. batesi · C. batesii · C. batessi · C. belizensis · C. bellonis (Serpentine Manjack) · C. bequaertii · C. bicolor · C. bifurcata · C. blanchetii · C. blancoi · C. blancoi mollis · C. bogotensis · C. boissieri (Texas Wild Olive) · C. boliviana · C. bonorae · C. bonplandiana · C. bonplandii · C. bordasii · C. borinquensis (Muneco) · C. bourreria · C. braceliniae · C. brachycalyx · C. brachypoda · C. brachytricha · C. bracteata · C. brevispicata · C. brevispicata var. hypomalaca · C. bridgesii · C. brittonii · C. brownei · C. brownii · C. brunnea · C. buchii · C. buddleoides · C. bullata · C. bullata var. angustata · C. buxifolia · C. caaguazuensis · C. cabanayensis · C. caffra · C. calcicola · C. callococca

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

Identifiers

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 = 35.440 meters (116.273 feet), Standard Deviation = 375.650 based on 62 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 2009-07-03