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Description
Family Passifloraceae
Climbing
herbs or lianas with axillary
tendrils
, rarely shrubs
or trees
, vegetative
ramification
through a supra-axillary
bud. Leaves alternate (rarely subopposite), spirally arranged
, simple
or rarely compound
, stipulate
or not, petiolate
, petiole
or base
of blade
often with 1 to many glands
; leaf blade entire or lobed
, venation
pinnate or palmate, often with glands on margin
and abaxial
surface. Inflorescence cymose
, axillary, sessile or pedunculate
, primary
axis often a tendril, secondary axis often reduced; bracts minute to foliaceous
, sometimes glandular
. Pedicels articulate
distal to bracts. Flowers mostly actinomorphic
, bisexual
, functionally unisexual
, or polygamous; perianth persistent
, segments free
or partially fused at base. Sepals (3-) 5(or 6) . Petals (3-) 5(or 6), imbricate. Corona
inserted
on hypanthium, composed of filaments
or hairs
often in multiple
series. Stamens (4 or) 5(-60), inserted on androgynophore
or at base of hypanthium; filaments free to base or sometimes partially fused; anthers
dorsifixed
, 2-celled, dehiscing via longitudinal
slits, sometimes with apical appendage
. Ovary (1-) 3(-5) -carpellate, superior, 1-loculed, sessile or stipitate
on elongate
androgynophore; placentation parietal
; ovules many, anatropous
; styles (1-) 3(-5), free to partially fused at base; stigmas globose
, capitate, papillate
, or divided
. Fruit a berry or loculicidally 3(-5) -valved capsule. Seeds numerous
, compressed
, often beaked
, enclosed by fleshy
aril; testa reticulate
or pitted
; endosperm copious
, oily; embryo straight; cotyledons foliaceous.
About 16 genera and 660 species: mainly in tropical
and subtropical
areas, particularly diverse
in the New World tropics; two genera and 23 species (seven endemic, seven introduced
) in China.[1]
Habitat
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland [more info]
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:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Violanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Malpighiales
()
- C. Martius, 1835
- Family:
Passifloraceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu ex Roussel, 1806, nom. cons.
- Passion-Flower Family
- Subfamily:
Turneroideae
()
- Genus:
Turnera
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Specific epithet:
hindsiana
- Benth.
- Botanical name: - Turnera hindsiana Benth.
- Specific epithet:
hindsiana
- Benth.
- Genus:
Turnera
(
- Subfamily:
Turneroideae
(
- Family:
Passifloraceae
(
- Order:
Malpighiales
(
- Superorder:
Violanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Hemsl. Publication : Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 1: 474 1880 [Aug 1880]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Turnera
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
T. angustifolia (Narrowleaf Yellow Alder) · T. diffusa (Damiana) · T. diffusa var. aphrodisiaca (Damiana) · T. diffusa var. diffusa (Damiana) · T. pumilea (Yellow Alder) · T. scabra (Rough Yellow Alder) · T. trioniflora (Cuban Buttercup) · (Ramgoat Dashalong) · T. ulmifolia var. elegans (Sage Rose)
More Info
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- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 5 1897-1901 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 167.
- Bao Shihying. 1999. Passifloraceae. In: Ku Tsuechih, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(1): 97-120.
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.
- León-Yánez, S. & Pitman, N. 2004. Turnera hindsiana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 2007:
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5989684
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15886104
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:836603-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 836603-1
- IUCN ID: 247687
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1029192
Footnotes
- Yinzheng Wang, Shawn E. Krosnick, Peter Møller Jørgensen & David Hearn "Passifloraceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 141. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
