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.
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:
acicularis
- J.M.Black
- Variety:
sessiliflora
- Botanical name: - Hibbertia acicularis var. sessiliflora J.M.Black
- Variety:
sessiliflora
- Specific epithet:
acicularis
- J.M.Black
- 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 : J.M.Black Publication : Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 1912 (Dec. 1912)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Hibbertia
There are approximately 476 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 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. banksii forma 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. coriacea commersonii · 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
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
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Identifiers
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:120354-3
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 120354-3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1152866
