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Description
Family Pittosporaceae
Trees
or shrubs
, evergreen
, glabrous
or pubescent
, occasionally spiny
. Leaves alternate, occasionally opposite, estipulate; leaf blade
mostly leathery, margin
entire, rarely dentate
or lobed
. Inflorescences umbellate
, corymbose
, paniculate
, or a solitary flower, bracteate
and bracteolate
. Flowers usually bisexual
, sometimes polygamous, actinomorphic
, rarely zygomorphic, usually 5-merous (except ovary) . Sepals usually free
or slightly connate
. Petals free or connate, white, yellow, blue, or red. Stamens opposite sepals; filament
filiform
; anther
basifixed
or dorsifixed
, 2-loculed, dehiscing longitudinally or by pores
. Ovary superior, of 2 or 3( 5) carpels, usually 1-loculed or incompletely 2 5-loculed; ovules numerous
, anatropous
; placentation parietal
, axile
, or basilar. Style short, simple
or 2 5-lobed, persistent
or deciduous. Fruit a capsule dehiscing by adaxial
suture, or a berry. Seeds numerous; testa thin; endosperm well developed; embryo small.
Nine genera and ca.
250 species: tropical
and subtropical
regions of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Pacific Islands, especially Australia; one genus and 46 species (33 endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- 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:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Aralianae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Apiales
()
- Nakai, 1930
- Family:
Pittosporaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1814
- pittosporums
- Genus:
Ixiosporum
()
- Specific epithet:
spinescens
- F.Muell.
- Botanical name: - Ixiosporum spinescens F.Muell.
- Specific epithet:
spinescens
- F.Muell.
- Genus:
Ixiosporum
(
- Family:
Pittosporaceae
(
- Order:
Apiales
(
- Superorder:
Aralianae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : F.Muell. Publication : Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 1861 (Feb. 1861)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ixiosporum
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Further Reading
- The useful native plants of Australia, (including Tasmania) by J. H. Maiden. Sydney, Turner and Henderson, 1889. url p. 683.
- Chang Hung-ta & Yan Su-zhu. 1979. Pittosporaceae. In: Chang Hung-ta, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 35(2): 136.
Notes
Contributors
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10745111
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15737786
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:684321-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 684321-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1369616
Footnotes
- Zhi-Yun Zhang & Nicholas J. Turland "Pittosporaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
