Dolichandrone spathacea

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Common Names

Description

Family Bignoniaceae

Trees , shrubs , or vines , climbers rarely herbs. Leaves opposite, alternate, or whorled , simple or pinnately compound , rarely palmately compound , without stipules, climbers usually with tendrils modified sometimes into hooks or suckers . Inflorescences cymose , paniculate , or racemose, terminal or axillary , rarely flowers borne on old stems; bracts and bractlets present, sometimes deciduous. Flowers bisexual , zygomorphic, usually large. Calyx campanulate or tubular , truncate , 2-5-dentate, or glandular subulate-dentate. Corolla campanulate or funnelform , usually bilabiate; lobes 5, imbricate or valvate . Fertile stamens 4 (didynamous ) and staminode 1, or 2 and staminodes 3, rarely all 5 stamens fertile. Disc fleshy . Ovary superior, 2-locular, rarely 1- or 4-locular; placentation axile or parietal ; ovules numerous . Style filiform ; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule dehiscing loculicidally or septicidally, rarely fruit fleshy and indehiscent. Seeds numerous, usually winged or with tufts of hairs at both ends; endosperm absent.

About 116-120 genera and 650-750 species: mostly in tropical and subtropical regions; 12 genera and 35 species (21 endemic) in China.

Plants of the Bignoniaceae usually produce large flowers, and many species are widely cultivated in China as ornamentals . These include Arrabidaea magnifica Sprague ex Steenis, Campsis radicans (Linnaeus) Seemann, Catalpa speciosa (Warder ex Barney) Engelmann, Clytostoma callistegioides (Chamisso) Bureau & Schumann, Crescentia alata Kunth, C. cujete Linnaeus, Jacaranda cuspidifolia Martius, J. mimosifolia D. Don, Kigelia africana (Lamarck) Bentham, Macfadyena unguis-cati (Linnaeus) A. H. Gentry, Pandorea jasminoides (Linnaeus) Schumann, Parmetiera cerifera Seemann, Podranea ricasoliana (Tanfani) Sprague, Pyrostegia venusta (Ker-Gawler) Miers, Spathodea campanulata Beauvois, Stenolobium stans (Linnaeus) Seemann, Tabebuia chrysantha (Jacquin) G. Nicholson, T. rosea (Bertoloni) de Candolle, and Tecomaria capensis (Thunberg) Spach.[1]

Habitat

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of -56 meters (-182 feet).[2]

Biology

Diet

[Migration]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000.

Place of publication : K . M. Schumann and U. M. Hollrung, Fl. Kais. Wilh. Land. 123. 1889.

Name verified on 24-Mar-1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 17-Sep-1999.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Dolichandrone

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 26 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

D. alba · D. alternifolia · D. arcuata · D. atrovirens · D. brunonis · D. cauda-felina · D. columnaris · D. crispa · D. falcata · D. filiformis · D. heterophylla · D. hildebrandtii · D. hirsuta · D. latifolia · D. lawii · D. longissima · D. lutea · D. obtusifolia · D. platycalyx · D. rheedei · D. rheedii · D. serrulata · D. smithii · D. spathacea (Mangrove Trumpet-Tree) · D. stipulata · D. tomentosa

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Further Reading

• Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. Colombo: Skien; 1901-1924. ENG url p. 160.
• Aubr and eacute;ville, A. et al., eds. 1960 and ndash;. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Backer, C. A. and R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963 and ndash;1968. Flora of Java. (F Java)
• Briggs, J.D. and Leigh, J.H. 1988. Rare or threatened Australian plants. CSIRO Publications, Melbourne, Australia.
• Dassanayake, M. D. and F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980 and ndash;. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• Die Flora der deutschen Schutzgebiete in der Su?dsee /von Karl Schumann und Karl Lauterbach. 1901 Leipzig: verlag von Gebru?der Borntraeger, 1901 [i.e. 1900] GER url p. 540.
• Erftemeijer, P., van Balen, B. and Djuharsa, E. 1988. The importance of Segara Anakan for nature conservation.
• Farr, E. R. et al., eds. 1979. Index nomina genericorum.; suppl. 1986 (ING)
• Fosberg, F. R. et al. 1979 and ndash;1982. Geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae/ Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae. (L Micrones)
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 2000. International code of botanical nomenclature (Saint Louis Code). (ICBN St Louis) 297.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Merrill, E. D. 1922 and ndash;1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants. (F Philipp)
• Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment. 1996. Sach do Viet Nam Phan Thuc Vat. Science and Technics Publishing House, Hanoi.
• Ng, P.K.L. and Wee, Y.C. (eds) 1994. The Singapore Red Data Book. The Nature Society, Singapore.
• Said, I.M. and Rozainah, Z. 1992. An updated list of wetland plant species of Peninsular Malaysia, with particular reference to those having socio-economic value. Asian Wetland Bureau.
• Smitinand, T. and K. Larsen, eds. 1970 and ndash;. Flora of Thailand. (F Thailand)
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948 and ndash;. Flora malesiana. (F Males)

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 27, 2008)
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Dolichandrone spathacea. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2671176
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-507297
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:109558-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 14450
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 507297
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 109558-1
• IUCN ID: 33705
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: DOSP3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 35861

Footnotes

1. Zhi-Yun Zhang & Thawatchai Santisuk "Bignoniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 213. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Standard Deviation = 600.050 based on 23 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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