Rinorea scorpioidea

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Interesting Facts

Description

Family Violaceae

Herbs annual or perennial , shrubs , or subshrubs , sometimes scandent , rarely small trees . Leaves simple , usually alternate, sometimes opposite, with small or leaflike stipules, petiolate , margin entire, serrate, or dissected . Flowers bisexual or unisexual , rarely polygamous, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, solitary or in axillary or terminal , spicate , paniculate , or racemose inflorescences, 2-bracteolate, sometimes cleistogamous . Sepals 5, equal or unequal, imbricate, persistent . Petals 5, imbricate or convolute, unequal, anterior one usually larger than others, saccate , gibbous or spurred at base . Stamens 5; anthers erect , free or connivent or connate , connectives often dilated into membranous appendages ; filaments very short or absent, anterior 2 stamens with spurlike nectary at base. Ovary superior, 1-loculed, 3-5-carpelled, syncarpous , with 3-5 parietal placentae each with 1 to many anatropous ovules ; style simple; stigmas variously shaped. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, usually with elastic and abaxially carinate valves , rarely baccate . Seeds often carunculate; testa hard, nitid , often with oily bodies, sometimes alate ; endosperm copious , fleshy ; embryo erect.

Twenty-two genera and 900-1000 species: worldwide, but particularly in tropical regions ; three genera and 101 species (36 endemic, three introduced ) in China.[1]

Genus Rinorea

Shrubs or small trees . Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, margin entire or serrate; stipules deciduous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal , racemose, paniculate , or sometimes cymose , rarely flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic , small. Sepals subequal , leathery. Petals equal or subequal, not spurred . Filaments free or ± connate , inserted inside at top of disk; connectives dilated abaxially from base or from apex into thin, scarious appendages exceeding anthers . Disk circular, slightly 5-lobed. Ovary ovoid , with few or numerous ovules; styles erect ; stigmas terminal, not divided . Capsule usually 3-valved, rarely 2-valved. Seeds few, ellipsoid , glabrous or pubescent .

About 340 species: tropical Africa, tropical America, and tropical Asia; four species (one endemic) in China.[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Gagnep. Publication : Fl. Indo-Chine [P.H. Lecomte et al. ] Suppl.: 195 1939

Basionym author: (H.Boissieu)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Rinorea

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Further Reading

• Wang Chingrui. 1991. Violaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 51: i-v, 1-148.
• Wang Chingrui. 1991. Violaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 51: i-v, 1-148.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Identifiers

• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4585896

Footnotes

1. Yousheng Chen, Qiner Yang, Hideaki Ohba & Vladimir V. Nikitin "Violaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 72, 138. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Rinorea". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 72. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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