Symplocos coccinea

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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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]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,809 meters (0 to 9,216 feet).[3]

Ecology: A cloud forest species.[4].

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Humb. & Bonpl. Publication : Pl. Aequin. i. 185. t. 52.

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

• 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 578.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url .
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23 1920-1926 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 1131.
• Cyclopedia of American horticulture: comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with ge by L.H. Bailey, assisted by Wilhelm Miller and many expert cultivators and botanists, illustrated with two thousand eight hundred original engravings. New York: Macmillan, 1906, c1900-02. url p. 1759.
• 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. 124, p. 670, p. 703.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 17 1880 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 291.
• The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 530.
• Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 1131.
• 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.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Symplocos coccinea. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 22, 2007:

• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad, Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM, MEXU/Plantas Vasculares

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3424539
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15873129
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:827051-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 247889-2
• IUCN ID: 244630
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1019615

Footnotes

1. 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]
2. "Symplocos". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 235. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 938.160 meters (3,077.953 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,226.070 based on 25 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
4. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Symplocos coccinea. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]

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