Labordia lydgateii

Description

Family Loganiaceae

Trees , shrubs , woody climbers , or herbs, sometimes epiphytic, sometimes with axillary spines or tendrils . Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, rarely verticillate , fasciculate, or in a whorl; stipules usually present, often reduced to lines connecting petiole bases , sometimes reduced to petiolar ocrea or a connate leaf-sheath; leaf blade usually entire , pinnately veined or 3--7-veined from base. Flowers in cymes, these often grouped into thyrses ; cymes sometimes umbel-like, scorpioid or reduced to a single flower; bracts usually small. Flowers usually bisexual . Calyx 4- or 5-lobed; lobes free or connate, mostly persistent , imbricate or valvate . Corolla sympetalous ; lobes 4 or 5(--16), valvate, imbricate or contorted in bud. Stamens inserted on corolla, included to exserted, equal in number to corolla lobes and alternating with them or sometimes fewer; filaments free, much shorter to much longer than anthers ; anthers basifixed , 2--4-locular, dehiscing introrsely or extrorsely by longitudinal slits, base slightly to deeply parted . Disc ring-shaped or not. Ovary superior or rarely semi-inferior, (1- or) 2(--4) -locular, placentation axillary or parietal ; ovules 1 to many per locule. Style simple , terminal , persistent or deciduous; stigma usually capitate, entire or shortly 2--4-cleft. Fruit a capsule, berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds sometimes winged ; endosperm fleshy or horny ; embryo minute, straight; cotyledons small.

Some 29 genera and about 500 species: mainly in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, absent from Europe; eight genera and 45 species (ten endemic) in China.Bingtao Li & Antony J. M. Leeuwenberg "Loganiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 320. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Taxonomy

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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: Lamiidae () - Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
        Superorder: Gentiananae () - Thorne Ex Reveal, 1992
        Order: Gentianales () - Lindley, 1833
        Family: Loganiaceae () - R. Brown Ex C. Martius, 1827 - Butterfly-Bush Family
        Genus: Labordia ()
        Specific epithet: lydgateii - C.N.Forbes
        Botanical name: - Labordia lydgateii C.N.Forbes