Nothocestrum peltatum

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• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Critically Endangered

Common Names

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Description

Family Solanaceae

Herbs, shrubs , small trees , or climbers . Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs simple , branched, or stellate , sometimes glandular . Leaves alternate, solitary or paired , simple or pinnately compound , without stipules; leaf blade entire , dentate , lobed , or divided . Inflorescences terminal , overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary , extra-axillary , or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate , racemose, paniculate , clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate . Flowers mostly bisexual , usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united . Stamens as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them, inserted within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores . Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile ; ovules usually numerous . Style 1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent . Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo mostly curved .

About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical America, widespread in temperate and tropical regions ; 20 genera (ten introduced ) and 101 species in China.

Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants cultivated in ornamental or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.Zhi-Yun Zhang, Anmin Lu & William G. D'Arcy "Solanaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 300. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Physical Description

Habitat

Ecology: A species of montane rainforest. (Ref. 82930)

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Unambiguous Synonyms

1. Nothocestrum breviflorum var. longipes Hbd.
2. Nothocestrum brevifolium var. rupilosum B.C. Stone
3. Nothocestrum peltatum Skottsberg

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication : Acta Horti Gothob. 15:438. 1944

Name verified on 08-Mar-2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 08-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Nothocestrum

There are approximately 5 species in this genus:

N. breviflorum (Small-Flowered Nothocestrum) · N. brevifolium · N. latifolium (Broadleaf Aiea) · N. longifolium (Long-Leaved Nothocestrum) · N. peltatum (Oahu Aiea)

Bibliography

• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• St. John, H. 1973. List and summary of the flowering plants in the Hawaiian islands. (L Hawaii)
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1995. Recovery plan for the Kaua'i plant cluster. Portland, Oregon: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Species Information: threatened and endangered animals and plants - on-line resource. (US Fish & Wildl List)
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i. (F Hawaii)
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1999. Hawaiian vascular plants at risk:1999. Bishop Mus. Occas. Pap. 60:50.
• Wagner, W., Herbst, D. and Sohmer, S. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.
• Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming, eds. 1978. Solanaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 1-175.

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Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• MBLWHOI Library: Universal Biological Index and Organizer. uBio.org accessed July 17, 2008.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 29, 2008)
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:

• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2653689
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-30631
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 270346
• GRIN Nomen Number: 320454
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 30631
• IUCN ID: 30947
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDSOL0P040
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: Q1ZK
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: NOIN5
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 51872

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