Elaeocarpus cyaneus

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• Description
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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Elaeocarpaceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen or semi-evergreen . Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, stipulate or not, petiolate , simple , pinnately veined. Inflorescence axillary or terminal , racemose, corymbose , paniculate , or sometimes fascicled or solitary flowers. Flowers bisexual or polygamous, 4- or 5-merous, actinomorphic , with or without bracts. Sepals 4 or 5, basally connate or free , usually valvate . Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, valvate or imbricate, margin laciniate or rarely entire. Stamens 8 to numerous ; filaments free and borne on disks; anthers 2-celled, dehiscent by apical or longitudinal slits, awned or tipped with hairs at apices. Disk circular or glandularly lobed . Ovary superior, 2- to several loculed; placentation axile ; ovules 2 to several per locule; style connate or free. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo flat.

About 12 genera and ca. 550 species: primarily in tropical to subtropical regions of both hemispheres, excluding Africa; two genera and 53 species (21 endemic) in China.[1]

Genus Elaeocarpus

Trees or rarely shrubs . Leaves alternate or spirally arranged ; stipules linear or rarely leaflike, caducous , rarely persistent ; petiole usually long and swollen at both ends; leaf blade margin serrate or entire, pinnately veined. Inflorescence axillary , racemose. Flowers bisexual , 4- or 5-merous. Sepals 4 or 5, valvate , abaxially usually pubescent . Petals 4 or 5, white, free , margin laciniate, rarely entire or lobed . Stamens 8 to numerous ; filaments short; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing from apical slits, with awn or hairs at tip . Disk usually glandularly 5-10-lobed, rarely circular. Ovary superior, 2-5(-7) -loculed; ovules 2-12 per locule; style linear or subulate . Fruit a drupe, 1(or 5) -loculed; endocarp hard, bony, surface usually lacunose . Seeds usually 1 per locule, with fleshy endosperm; cotyledons thin; embryo straight or curved .

About 360 species: primarily in the Old World tropics; 39 species (14 endemic) in China.[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Sims Publication : Curtis's Botanical Magazine 42 1815 (1 Jun. 1815)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Elaeocarpus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

E. angustifolius (Ash Quandong) · E. carolinensis (Elaeocarpus) · E. cyaneus (Whitebark) · E. decipiens (Japanese Blueberry Tree) · E. decipiens 'Monproud' (Dwarf Japanese Blueberry Tree) · E. grandis (Blue Marble Tree) · E. obovatus (Hard Quandong) · E. reticulatus (Blue Oliveberry)

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Further Reading

• A bush calendar / by Amy E. Mack (Mrs. Launcelot Harrison); with forty-two illustrations from nature Sydney [Australia]: Angus & Robertson, 1909 url p. 63, p. 67.
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1913. url p. 110, p. 244.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1907 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 21.
• Curtis's botanical magazine. 42 1815 London; New York [etc.]: Academic Press [etc.] url , p. 66.
• Don, G. A general history of the dichlamydeous plants: comprising complete descriptions of the different orders...the whole arranged according to the natural system /by George Don. 1 1831 London: J.G. and F. Rivington, 1831-1838. url p. 559.
• Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. Hobart, Tasmania, The Society. url p. 75.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 168, p. 176, p. 24, p. 293, p. 295, p. 30.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 108, p. 510, p. 584.
• The Canadian horticulturist [monthly] St. Catharines, E.S. Leavenworth. url p. 260.
• The Garden: an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. London: [s.n., url , p. 36, p. 533.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 234, p. 43, p. 813.
• The Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen. London: George W. Johnson and Robert Hogg, 1861-1877. url .
• The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 170.
• The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1826-1844. url p. 110, p. 439, p. 489.
• The identification of trees & shrubs; how to recognize, without previous knowledge of botany, wild or garden trees and shrubs native to the north temperate zone, with 2, 500 diagrams made by the author. New York, Dutton[1937] url p. 161, p. 95.
• Timbers and their uses; a handbook for woodworkers, merchants, and all interested in the conversion and use of timber, London, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1919. url , .
• Chang Hung-ta. 1989. Elaeocarpaceae. In: Chang Hung-ta, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(1): 1-46.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5834561
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:833802-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 14942
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 833802-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1263561

Footnotes

1. Ya Tang & Chamlong Phengklai "Elaeocarpaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 223. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Elaeocarpus". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 223. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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