Description
Family Dilleniaceae
Trees
, shrubs
, or woody climbers
, rarely herbs; hairs
sclerified and/or silicified, sometimes fasciculate. Leaves simple
, rarely pinnatisect
or pinnately compound
, usually spirally arranged
, rarely opposite, petiolate
; stipules absent; petiole
sometimes winged
; leaf blade
leathery, herbaceous, or membranous, margin
entire
or serrate. Flowers bisexual
, rarely unisexual
, actinomorphic
, occasionally zygomorphic, solitary or in racemes
, panicles or cymes. Sepals (3 or) 4-5(-18), imbricate, persistent
, usually leathery or fleshy
, sometimes accrescent
in fruit. Petals (2 or) 3-5(-7), white, yellow, or red, imbricate, crumpled in bud. Stamens numerous
(or 1-10), developing centrifugally, free
or united
basally and then in fascicles; staminodes often present; anthers
basifixed
, dehiscing by longitudinal
slits, apical clefts
, or apical pores. Gynoecium (1 or) 2-7(-20) -carpellate, superior; carpels free or hemisyncarpous; stylodia free, apically stigmatic
; ovules 1 to numerous, anatropous
; placentation submarginal
, or basal when ovules 1 or 2. Fruit a follicle, polyfollicle, berry, or capsule, or indehiscent and enclosed by fleshy sepals. Seeds 1 to numerous; endosperm copious
, oily; embryo very small, straight, achlorophyllous
.
Ten genera and ca.
500 species: pantropical
and extending into warm-temperate Australia; two genera and five species in China.Zhixiang Zhang & Klaus Kubitzki "Dilleniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 331. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 329 meters (0 to 1,079 feet).Mean = 135.680 meters (445.144 feet), Standard Deviation = 127.950 based on 63 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.
Taxonomy
- 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
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Dillenianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Dilleniales
()
- J. Hutchinson, 1924
- Family:
Dilleniaceae
()
- R.a. Salisbury, 1807
- Dillenia Family
- Genus:
Hibbertia
()
- Specific epithet:
acerosa
- (DC.) Benth.
- Botanical name: - Hibbertia acerosa (DC.) Benth.
- Specific epithet:
acerosa
- (DC.) Benth.
- Genus:
Hibbertia
(
- Family:
Dilleniaceae
(
- Order:
Dilleniales
(
- Superorder:
Dillenianae
(
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Benth. Publication : Fl. Austral . i. 24. Basionym : Dilleniaceae Pleurandra acerosa DC.Basionym author: (DC.)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Hibbertia
There are approximately 472 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
H. acerosa · H. acerosa var. acerosa · H. acerosa var. ulicifolia · H. acicularis · H. acicularis var. acicularis · H. acicularis var. sessiliflora · H. acicularis var. triandra · H. acrotrichion · H. acuminata · H. agrestis · H. altigena · H. amplexicaulis · H. ancistrophylla · H. ancistrotricha · H. andrewsiana · H. androsaemcides · H. androsaemoides · H. angustifolia · H. appressa · H. arcuata · H. argentea · H. argentea var. argentea · H. argentea var. diffusa · H. arnhemica · H. aspera · H. aspera pilosifolia · H. aspera subsp. pilosifolia · H. astrophylla · H. astrotricha · H. aubertii · H. aurea · H. aurea var. aurea · H. aurea var. brevifolia · H. aurea var. obtusa · H. australis · H. avonensis · H. axillibarba · H. balansaeana · H. banksii · H. banksii f. banksii · H. banksii f. rigidula · H. basaltica · H. basitricha · H. baudouinii · H. bennettii · H. benthami · H. benthamii · H. billardierei · H. billardierei var. billardierei · H. billardierei var. monadelpha · H. billardierei var. obovata · H. billardierei var. ovata · H. billardierei var. parviflora · H. billardierei var. scabra · H. billardieri · H. bouletii · H. brachyphylla · H. bracteata · H. bracteosa · H. brongniartii · H. brownei · H. brownii · H. bupleurifolia · H. calycina · H. camforosma · H. camphorosma · H. candicans · H. canescens · H. carinata · H. catargyrea · H. charlesii · H. chartacea · H. cinerascens · H. cinerea · H. circumdans · H. cistiflora · H. cistiflora rostrata · H. cistiflora subsp. rostrata · H. cistifolia · H. cistoidea · H. commutata · H. comptonii · H. concinna · H. confertifolia · H. conspicua · H. coriacea · H. corifolia · H. covenyana · H. crassifolia · H. crenata · H. crinita · H. crispula · H. cuneifolia · H. cuneiformis · H. cunninghamii · H. cunninghamii var. cunninghamii · H. cunninghamii var. debilis · H. cunninghamii var. hastata · H. cunninghamii var. latifolia · H. cymosa
Bibliography
- Chang Hung-ta. 1984. Dilleniaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 190-195.
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Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10648392
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 1130338
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:120195-3
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 120195-3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1254880
