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Description
Family Symplocaceae
Shrubs
or trees
, evergreen
(Symplocos
paniculata deciduous) . Leaves spirally or distichously arranged, simple
; stipules absent; leaf blade
margin
entire, dentate
, or glandular
dentate, midvein
adaxially impressed
or rarely flat or prominent
. Inflorescences in spikes, racemes
, panicles, or glomerules
, rarely flowers solitary. Flowers actinomorphic
, bisexual
, rarely unisexual
, supported by 1 bract and 2 bractlets
, rarely bractless or with several bracts in leaf axil
. Ovary inferior to half inferior, 2--5-locular but unless stated otherwise in descriptions
3-locular, with 2--4 ovules per locule. Calyx lobes
(3--) 5, persistent
, valvate
or imbricate. Corolla white (not repeated in descriptions) or yellow, gamopetalous but divided
nearly to base
(or to middle
in S. pendula) ; lobes (3--) 5(--11), imbricate. Stamens many, rarely 4 or 5, adnate
to base of corolla tube
, monadelphous
in subgenus
Symplocos, monadelphous to pentadelphous
in subgenus Hopea; filaments
distinct
or in fascicles; anthers
subglobose, 2-locular. Ovary usually with an apical 5-glandular, annular
, cylindrical, or 5-lobed disc. Style 1, filiform
; stigma small, capitate or 2--5-lobed. Fruit a drupe. Seeds with copious
endosperm; embryo straight or curved
; cotyledons very short.
One genus and ca.
200 species: widely distributed in tropics and subtropics of Asia, Australia, and America; 42 species (18 endemic) in China.[1]
Genus Symplocos
Morphological characters and geographical distribution are the same as the family .[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:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Primulanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1996
- Order:
Ericales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Suborder:
Styracineae
()
-
- Family:
Symplocaceae
()
- Desfontaines, 1820, nom. cons.
- symplocos
- Genus:
Symplocos
()
- N.J. Jacquin, 1760
- Sweetleaf
- Specific epithet:
variabilis
- Mart. ex Miq.
- Botanical name: - Symplocos variabilis Mart. ex Miq.
- Specific epithet:
variabilis
- Mart. ex Miq.
- Genus:
Symplocos
(
- Family:
Symplocaceae
(
- Suborder:
Styracineae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Primulanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Mart. ex Miq. Publication : Fl. Bras. (Martius) 7: 30
Similar Species
Members of the genus Symplocos
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
S. coccinea (Limoncillo) · S. lanata (Nispero Cimarron) · S. martinicensis (Martinique Sweetleaf) · S. micrantha (Aceitunilla) · S. paniculata (Asiatic Sweetleaf) · S. racemosa (Lodh Tree) · S. tacanensis (Palo Mora) · S. tinctoria (Common Sweetleaf)
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Further Reading
- Plantae Wilsonianae; an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold arboretum of Harvard university during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910, by E. H. Wilson, ed. by Charles Sprague Sargent. Cambridge, University Press, 1913-17. url p. 598.
- Sargent, C. S. Plantae Wilsonianae: an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold arboretum of Harvard university during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910 /by E. H. Wilson, ed. by Charles Sprague Sargent. 2 1916 Cambridge: The University press, 1913-17. url p. 598.
- Wu Rong-fen (as Wu Young-fen) in Wu Young-fen & Hwang Shu-mei, eds. 1987. Symplocaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(2): 1-77.
- Wu Rong-fen (as Wu Young-fen) in Wu Young-fen & Hwang Shu-mei, eds. 1987. Symplocaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 60(2): 1-77.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3424545
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15873784
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:827348-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 827348-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 895071
Footnotes
- Young-fen Wu & Hans P. Nooteboom "Symplocaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 235. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- "Symplocos". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 235. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
