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Description
Family Fagaceae
Trees
or rarely shrubs
, monoecious, evergreen
or deciduous. Stipules usually early deciduous. Leaves alternate, sometimes false-whorled in Cyclobalanopsis. Inflorescences unisexual
or androgynous with female cupules at the base
of an otherwise male inflorescence. Male inflorescences a pendulous head
or erect
or pendulous catkin, sometimes branched; flowers in dense cymules
. Male flower: sepals 4-6(-9), scalelike, connate
or distinct
; petals absent; filaments
filiform
; anthers
dorsifixed
or versatile, opening by longitudinal
slits; with or without a rudimentary
pistil. Female inflorescences of 1-7 or more flowers subtended individually or collectively by a cupule formed from numerous
fused bracts, arranged individually or in small groups along an axis or at base of an androgynous inflorescence or on a separate axis. Female flower: perianth 1-7 or more; pistil 1; ovary inferior, 3-6(-9) -loculed; style and carpels as many as locules; placentation axile
; ovules 2 per locule. Fruit a nut. Seed usually solitary by abortion
(but may be more than 1 in Castanea, Castanopsis, Fagus, and Formanodendron), without endosperm; embryo large.
Seven to 12 genera (depending on interpretation) and 900-1000 species: worldwide except for tropical
and S Africa; seven genera and 294 species (163 endemic, at least three introduced
) in China.
Many species are important timber trees. Nuts of Fagus, Castanea, and of most Castanopsis species are edible, and oil
is extracted from nuts of Fagus. Nuts of most species of this family
contain copious
amounts of water soluble tannin. Members
of the Fagaceae are the main element of both broad-leaved evergreen and mixed mesophytic
forests
from 500-3200 m.
[1]
Habitat
Ecology: Primary rainforest.[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:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Faganae
()
- (Engler, 1892) Takhtajan, 1997
- Order:
Fagales
()
- Engler, 1892
- Family:
Fagaceae
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Beech Family
- Genus:
Nothofagus
()
- Blume, 1850, nom. cons.
- Subgenus:
nom
()
- Specific epithet:
womersleyi
- Steen.
- Botanical name: - Nothofagus womersleyi Steen.
- Specific epithet:
womersleyi
- Steen.
- Subgenus:
nom
(
- Genus:
Nothofagus
(
- Family:
Fagaceae
(
- Order:
Fagales
(
- Superorder:
Faganae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Steenis Publication
: Fl.
Males., Ser. 1, Spermat.
7(2): 294 (1972)
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003
Similar Species
Members of the genus Nothofagus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
N. alessandri (Ruil) · N. alpina (Raul) · N. antarctica (Antarctic Beech) · N. cunninghamii (Myrtle Beech) · N. dombeyi (Cohiue) · N. fusca (Red Beech) · N. glauca (Roble Colorado) · N. gunnii (Tanglefoot Beech) · N. menziesii (Silver Beech) · N. moorei (Australian Beech) · N. obliqua (Roble) · N. procera (Southern Beech) · N. pumilio (Lenga) · N. solandri (Black Beech)
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Further Reading
- 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 278.
- Huang Chengchiu, Chang Yongtian, Hsu Yongchun & Jen Hsienwei. 1998. Fagaceae. In: Chun Woonyong & Huang Chengchiu, eds. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 22: 1-332.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 13, 2012.
- Eddowes, P.J. 1998. Nothofagus womersleyi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:
- Australian National Herbarium
- , Australian National Herbarium
- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7147600
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-135809
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15490201
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:359116-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 359116-1
- IUCN ID: 227112
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1024546
Footnotes
- Chengjiu Huang, Yongtian Zhang & Bruce Bartholomew "Fagaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 314. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Eddowes, P.J. 1998. Nothofagus womersleyi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
