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Description
Family Ochnaceae
Trees
and shrubs
, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, simple
, rarely pinnately compound
, petiolate
; stipules entire or sometimes lacerate
, persistent
or caducous
; leaf blade
margin
dentate
, serrate or rarely entire; veins pinnate. Inflorescences terminal
or axillary
, cymose
or racemose, rarely 1-flowered. Flowers generally bisexual
, actinomorphic
or more rarely zygomorphic, bracteate
; pedicels articulated. Sepals (2-4) 5(10-15), free
or more rarely united
, imbricate or valvate
. Petals (3-) 5(-8), mostly free, clawed to sessile, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5-10 or numerous
; filaments
generally free and persistent, or anthers
sessile; anthers basifixed
, longitudinally dehiscent
or poricidal
; staminodes present or not, sometimes persistent, awl-shaped
, spatulate
, or petaloid
, sometimes connected into a tube
. Gynoecium (2 or) 3-5(-15) -carpellate, gynophore
present or rarely absent; ovary superior, entire or deeply lobed
, generally long styled; placentation basal, axile
or parietal
, rarely laminar
; ovules 1 or 2 or numerous per locule; stigma entire or sometimes shortly divided
at apex. Fruit fleshy
or non-fleshy, generally a septicidal
capsule, rarely a nut with accrescent
sepals or a drupe, or separating into up to 15 blackish drupelets
on a colored
accrescent receptacle. Seeds endospermic
or non-endospermic, winged
or not; germination phanerocotylar
or cryptocotylar
; embryo usually straight, more rarely curved
.
About 27 genera and ca.
500 species: tropical
zones, mainly in the Neotropics; three genera and four species (one endemic) in China.[1]
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,624 meters (0 to 8,609 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:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Theanae
()
- Thorne Ex Reveal, 1993
- Order:
Malpighiales
()
- C. Martius, 1835
- Suborder:
Ochnineae
()
-
- Family:
Ochnaceae
()
- A.P. de Candolle, 1811, nom. cons.
- Ochna Family
- Subfamily:
Quiinoideae
()
- Genus:
Quiina
()
- Aublet, 1775
- Specific epithet:
pteridophylla
- (Radlk.) Pires
- Botanical name: - Quiina pteridophylla (Radlk.) Pires
- Specific epithet:
pteridophylla
- (Radlk.) Pires
- Genus:
Quiina
(
- Subfamily:
Quiinoideae
(
- Family:
Ochnaceae
(
- Suborder:
Ochnineae
(
- Order:
Malpighiales
(
- Superorder:
Theanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Pires Publication
: Bol. Tecn. Inst. Agron. N.
no. 20: 48 1950
Basionym
author: (Radlk.)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Quiina
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Further Reading
- Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 1217, p. 979.
- Wei Chao-fen. 1984. Ochnaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 302-308.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:
- Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3459640
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15806307
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:707039-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 707039-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1387112
Footnotes
- Zhixiang Zhang & Maria do Carmo E. Amaral "Ochnaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 361. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 408.000 meters (1,338.583 feet), Standard Deviation = 585.850 based on 31 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
