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Payena selangorica

(Aleutian Mountainheath)

Overview

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Near Threatened

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Aleutian Mountainheath, Blue Mountainheath, Hybrid Mountainheath, Mountain Heath, Pink Mountain-Heather, Pink Mountainheath, Purple Mountain Heather, Purple Mountainheath, Red Mountainheath, Red Mountainheather, Yellow Mountain Heather, Yellow Mountainheath

Description

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Family Sapotaceae

Trees or shrubs , usually producing latex. Leaves spirally arranged or alternate and distichous, rarely ± opposite, sometimes crowded at apex of branchlets ; stipules early deciduous or absent; leaf blade papery or leathery, margin entire. Flowers bisexual or unisexual , usually in sessile axillary clusters , rarely solitary; cluster pedunculate or in raceme-like inflorescence, bracteolate . Calyx a single whorl of usually 4--6 sepals, or 2 whorls each with 2--4 sepals. Corolla lobes as many to 2 X as many as sepals, usually entire, rarely with 2 lacerate or lobular appendages . Stamens inserted at corolla base or at throat of corolla tube , as many as and opposite corolla lobes to many and in 2 or 3 whorls; staminodes when present alternate with stamens, scaly to petal-like. Ovary superior, 4- or 5-locular, placentation axillary; ovules 1 per locule, anatropous . Style 1, often apically lobed . Fruit a berry or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seed coat brown (pale yellow in Pouteria annamensis), hard, shiny, rich in tannin; endosperm usually oily; seed scar lateral and linear to oblong or basal and round .

About 1100 species and 53 genera: pantropical ; 11 genera and 24 species (six endemic) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Subshrub , Shrub • Growth Form: Rhizomatous • Shape and Orientation: Decumbent

Flowers: Bloom Period: Summer • Flower Color: Purple • Flower Conspicuous: Yes

Seeds: Seed Spread Rate: Slow • Seedling Vigor: Medium • Fruit/Seed Abundance: Medium • Fruit/Seed Color: Green • Fruit/Seed Conspicuous: No • Cold Stratification Required: Yes

Foliage: Foliage Color: Green • Foliage Porosity Summer: Porous • Foliage Porosity Winter: Porous • Foliage Texture: Fine • Fall Conspicuous: No • Leaf Retention: Yes

Size/Age/Growth

Active Growth Period: Spring and Summer • Growth Rate: Slow • Mature Height (feet): 1.0 • Size: under 6" tall. • Vegetative Spread Rate: Moderate • Lifespan: Lifespan

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,916 meters (0 to 9,567 feet).[2]

Ecology: A tree of moist forest up to an altitude of 300 m. [3].

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial • Coppice Potential: Yes • Progagated by Bulbs: No • Propagated by Bare Root: Yes • Propagated by Container: Yes • Propagated by Corms: No • Propagated by Cuttings: Yes • Propagated by Seed: Yes • Propagated by Sod: No • Propagated by Sprigs: No • Propagated by Tubers: No • Fruit/Seed Period Begin: Summer • Fruit/Seed Period End: Fall • Fruit/Seed Persistence: No

Growth

Culture: Space 18-24" apart.

Soil: Adapted to Medium Textured: Adapted to Medium Textured Soils • Adapted to Coarse Textured Soils: Yes • Anaerobic Tolerance: None • Salinity Tolerance: None • CaCO3 Tolerance: None • Minimum pH: 5.5 • Maximum pH: 7.5 • Fertility Requirement: Low

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun . • Shade Tolerance: Intermediate

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: None • Minimum Precipitation: 40 • Maximum Precipitation: 60 • Moisture Use: High

Temperature: Minimum Temperature (F): -3 • Minimum Frost Free Days: 200 • Cold Hardiness: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Madhuca selangorica • Madhuca selangorica (King & Gamble) J. Sinclair

Notes

Publishing author : King & Gamble Publication : J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt . 2, Nat. Hist. 74(1): 175 1906 [1905 publ. 4 Jan 1906]

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Payena

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P. selangorica (Aleutian Mountainheath)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

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Footnotes

  1. Shugang Li & T. D. Pennington "Sapotaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 205. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. Mean = 1,012.750 meters (3,322.671 feet), Standard Deviation = 568.220 based on 1,122 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
  3. Chua, L.S.L. 1998. Payena selangorica. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 03 February 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 7/21/2012