Ryania speciosa

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Interesting Facts

Description

Family Flacourtiaceae

Trees or shrubs , hermaphroditic , monoecious, dioecious, or polygamous, evergreen or deciduous; trunk , branches, and branchlets sometimes spiny ; hairs simple , rarely T-shaped or stellate . Leaves simple, usually alternate, rarely opposite or verticillate , sometimes crowded at apices of branches; stipules usually small and caducous , sometimes larger, leaflike and persistent , rarely absent; petiole generally present, sometimes with apex 2-glandular and/or with additional glands along petiole length; leaf blade usually pinnate-veined, sometimes 3-5-veined from base or palmate-veined, with or without pellucid dots or lines , sometimes with a pair of glands at junction of blade and petiole, margin entire or toothed , teeth glandular or not. Inflorescences axillary , terminal , or cauliflorous , of various forms: racemose, spicate , cymose , corymbose , or paniculate , sometimes flowers fasciculate, or solitary; pedicels often articulate ; bracts and bracteoles usually small to minute. Flowers radially symmetric , bisexual or unisexual , hypogynous, perigynous, or epigynous ; perianth cyclic , rarely spiral , in unisexual flowers remnants of opposite sex present or absent. Sepals imbricate or valvate , rarely spathaceous , mostly (2 or) 3-6, rarely more, usually free or connate at base only, sometimes partly united into a tube , caducous or persistent, rarely accrescent . Petals 3-8, rarely more, often isomerous and alternating with sepals, free, imbricate or valvate, rarely contorted, similar to sepals or not, sometimes with a fleshy adaxial basal scale , or petals absent. Disk present, entire, lobed , or comprised of free or connate disk glands, these extrastaminal , interstaminal, or intrastaminal (bisexual or staminate flowers ), or extragynoecial (pistillate flowers), or disk absent. Stamens 1 to many (ca. 100), 1- or many seriate , sometimes in epipetalous bundles, or on margin of cupular disk or rim of calyx tube; filaments free, rarely united into a column; anthers 2-thecate, usually longitudinally dehiscent , rarely opening by terminal pores, connective sometimes shortly projected or glandular. Ovary superior or semi-inferior, 1-loculed, with 2-9 parietal placentas, rarely incompletely 2-9(or more) -celled by placentas protruding deeply into locule; ovules 2 or more on each placenta, orthotropous , anatropous , or hemi-anatropous; styles isomerous with placentas, free or partly to completely united, rarely absent, stigmas small or large, capitate to flattened and branched. Fruit capsular or baccate , rarely a drupe, pericarp mostly smooth , sometimes winged or bristly . Seeds 1 to many, with or without a fleshy sometimes brightly colored sarcotesta and/or aril, sometimes with long hairs, or broadly winged; endosperm usually copious and fleshy; embryo straight or curved ; cotyledons usually broad, often cordate.

About 87 genera and ca. 900 species: mostly in tropical and subtropical regions, some extending into the temperate zone; 12 genera (one endemic) and 39 species (nine endemic) in China; four additional species (all endemic) are poorly known (see Homalium) .[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,051 meters (0 to 10,010 feet).[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Vahl Publication : Eclog. Am. i. 51. t. 9.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ryania

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Further Reading

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 283.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 50 2004 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 105, p. 99.
• Cranberries;: the national cranberry magazine. Portland, CT [etc.]: Taylor Pub. Co. [etc.]. url p. 13.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1941 Chicago, [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1941] url p. 35.
• Grisebach, A. H. R. Flora of the British West Indian islands /by A.H.R. Grisebach. [1859]-18 London, L. Reeve, 1864. url p. 296.
• Insects; the yearbook of agriculture, 1952. Washington: U.S.G.P.O., 1952. url p. 224, p. 774.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 130 1956 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 103, p. 123, p. 131, p. 40.
• The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology being a continuation of the Annals combined with Loudon and Charlesworth's Magazine of Natural History. London, Taylor and Francis, Ltd. url p. 15, p. 15.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 573.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 200.
• The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 485.
• The illustrated dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists. Ed. by George Nicholson. Assisted by Professor J. W. H. Trail and J. Garrett. London: L. U. Gill, [1884]-89. url p. 338.
• The natural history of plants. By H. Baillon. Tr. by Marcus M. Hartog. London, L. Reeve & co., 1871-88. url p. 281.
• The natural history of plants. Translated by Marcus M. Hartog. LondonL. Reeve1871- url p. 281.
• Lai Shushen. 1999. Flacourtiaceae. In: Ku Tsuechih, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(1): 1-80.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 04, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 13 providers.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3457487
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15492422
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:112052-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 112052-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 890202

Footnotes

1. Qiner Yang & Sue Zmarzty "Flacourtiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 112, 138. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 336.030 meters (1,102.461 feet), Standard Deviation = 570.000 based on 553 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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