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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Muttonwood
Common Names in French:
Bois Pilori
Description
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Physical Description
Habit: Tree
Habitat
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[1]
Biology
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Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
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- 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:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Rutanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Crossosomatales
()
- Takhtajan ex Reveal, 1993
- Family:
Staphyleaceae
()
- Augier, 1801 ex Martinov, 1820, nom. cons.
- Genus:
Turpinia
()
- Ventenat, 1807, nom. cons.
- Specific epithet:
occidentalis
- G.Don
- Botanical name: - Turpinia occidentalis G.Don
- Specific epithet:
occidentalis
- G.Don
- Genus:
Turpinia
(
- Family:
Staphyleaceae
(
- Order:
Crossosomatales
(
- Superorder:
Rutanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Staphylea occidentalis Sw. • Turpinia paniculata auct. non Vent.
Notes
Publishing author
: G.Don Publication
: Gen. Hist. 2: 3 1832 [Oct 1832]
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Turpinia
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Further Reading
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- A companion to Blackie's tropical readers, books I and II: containing suggestions for experiemnts and practical work / by E.J. Wortley. Glasgow; Blackie, 1911. url p. 96.
- A dictionary of English names of plants applied in England and among English-speaking people to cultivated and wild plants, trees, and shrubs, by William Miller; in two parts, English-Latin and Latin-English. London, J. Murray, 1884. url p. 259.
- A montane rain-forest; a contribution to the physiological plant geography of Jamaica, Washington, D. C., Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1914. url , , .
- A provisional list of the indigenous and naturalized flowering plants of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Aston W. Gardner & Co., 1893. url .
- Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 250.
- Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url p. 21, p. 29, p. 52, p. 53.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 40 2000 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 143, p. 259, p. 371, p. 688.
- Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 9 1966 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 101, p. 122, p. 662, p. 70.
- Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1937 Chicago, 1937. url p. 635.
- Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark. 24 1949 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1949. url p. 223, p. 224.
- Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London.Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1910- url p. 38.
- Grisebach, A. H. R. Flora of the British West Indian islands /by A.H.R. Grisebach. [1859]-18 London, L. Reeve, 1864. url p. 128, p. 777.
- Johnson's Gardeners' dictionary and cultural instructor. London, A. T. De La Mare printing and publishing co., ltd.[1916] url p. 827.
- Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 290.
- Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 183, p. 28.
- Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 688.
Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 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
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- 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: 2669691
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-505620
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13763015
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:785554-1
- GRIN Nomen Number: 414914
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 505620
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 785554-1
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: TUOC
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 63522
Footnotes
- Mean = 910.410 meters (2,986.909 feet), Standard Deviation = 959.100 based on 785 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
