Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Kacip Fatimah
Description
Family Myrsinaceae
Trees
, shrubs
, climbers
[or rarely herbs]. Leaves simple
, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled
, without stipules, often glandular
. Inflorescences terminal
, axillary
, or at apices of lateral
branches, racemose (often paniculate
), corymbose
, cymose
, umbellate
, or fascicled on scaly
spur branches in leaf axils
. Flowers bisexual
or polygamous, rarely unisexual
and plants
polygamodioecious or dioecious, 4- or 5(or 6) -merous, actinomorphic
. Sepals basally connate
or free
, persistent
, usually glandular. Petals basally connate or rarely free, usually glandular. Stamens as many as and opposite to petals, usually adnate
to base
or throat
of corolla tube
, sometimes free, rarely united
into a tube; anthers
2-celled, dorsifixed
, dehiscing longitudinally or by apical slits or pores
, rarely transversely septate
; filaments
present or absent. Ovary superior, rarely inferior to half-inferior, 1-celled; placentation free-central
, sometimes basal; ovules 1 to several in 11 to many rows
, usually embedded
in placenta, anatropous
or semicampylotropous. Style 1; stigma simple or lobed
. Fruit drupes with fleshy
exocarp
or capsules. Seeds 1 to many; endosperm fleshy or horny
; embryo x = 10-13, 23.
About 42 genera and more than 2,200 species: primarily in tropical
and subtropical
or warm temperate regions
of both hemispheres; five genera and 120 species (51 endemic) in China.
Chinese genera of economic value include Ardisia (medicine, oil
, edible, wild vegetables), Maesa (edible, tea, dye), Aegiceras (tannin, fine fuel), Embelia (vermifuge, edible), Myrsine (medicine, fine wood
, tannin, fuel) .[1]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,003 meters (0 to 3,291 feet).[2]
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:
Dilleniidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Primulanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1996
- Order:
Myrsinales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Myrsinaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1810
- myrsine
- Genus:
Labisia
()
- Specific epithet:
pumila
- (Blume) Mez
- Botanical name: - Labisia pumila (Blume) Mez
- Specific epithet:
pumila
- (Blume) Mez
- Genus:
Labisia
(
- Family:
Myrsinaceae
(
- Order:
Myrsinales
(
- Superorder:
Primulanae
(
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Ardisia pumila Blume
Notes
Publishing author
: Mez Publication
: Pflanzenr. (Engler) Myrsin. 171
1902 [6 May 1902]
Basionym
author: (Blume)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Labisia
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Further Reading
- A bibliographic enumeration of Bornean plants, by E. D. Merrill. Singapore, Printed by Fraser & Neave, ltd., 1921 url p. 473, p. 473.
- An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 266.
- Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg. Suppl. 3 1910 Leiden [etc.]: E. J. Brill [etc.] url p. 284.
- Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url , p. 473.
- Journal of the Federated Malay States museums. Kuala Lumpur: F.M.S. Museums, 1906-1929. url p. 133, p. 159, p. 45, p. 46, p. 9.
- Materials for a flora of the Malayan Peninsula. By George King [and J.S. Gamble]. Calcutta;1889-1936. url p. 325, p. 327.
- The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 41 1912-13 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 293, p. 568.
- The Sarawak Museum journal. [Kuching]: Sarawak Museum, [1911- url .
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany 9 1916-1922 London. url p. 105, p. 105, p. 278, p. 278.
- Chen Chieh. 1979. Myrsinaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 58: 1-147.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 15, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 15, 2008:
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8438452
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15637051
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:588713-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 588713-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 748391
Footnotes
- Jie Chen & John J. Pipoly, III "Myrsinaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 213.120 meters (699.213 feet), Standard Deviation = 334.240 based on 16 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
