Vitex agnus-castus var. agnus-castus
(No common name)Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
- Vascular Plants
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Dicotyledons
- Order: Lamiales
- Family: Chalcidoidea
- Genus: Vitex
(VY-teks)
Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 638. 1753. - Chastetree
- Specific epithet: agnus-castus L.
- Variety: agnus-castus
- Botanical name: Vitex agnus-castus var. agnus-castus L.
- Variety: agnus-castus
- Specific epithet: agnus-castus L.
- Genus: Vitex
(VY-teks)
Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 638. 1753. - Chastetree
- Family: Chalcidoidea
- Order: Lamiales
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- Dicotyledons
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
- Vascular Plants
Notes:
Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Physical Description
Genus Vitex:
Trees or shrubs. Branches glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves opposite, palmately (1-) 3-8-foliolate; leaflets petiolulate, margin entire, dentate, serrate, or incised. Inflorescences terminal or axillary cymes, thyrses, or panicles; bracts usually small, often early deciduous. Calyx campanulate, tubular, or funnelform, sometimes 2-lipped, usually truncate or shortly 5-dentate. Corolla blue, white, or yellow, 2-lipped, lower lip 3-lobed with middle lobe greatly elongated, upper lip usually 2-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, sometimes exserted; anther locules attached only at tip, becoming divaricate. Ovary 2-4-locular; ovules 1 or 2 per locule. Style filiform; stigma 2-cleft. Drupes subtended by enlarged calyx, globose, ovoid, or obovoid, normally 4-locular and 4-seeded but often some locules suppressed and base of pyrene forming a hollowed cavity, endocarp a bony pyrene, mesocarp generally fleshy. Seeds obovoid or oblong, endosperm absent; cotyledons usually fleshy.
About 250 species: chiefly tropical, few in temperate regions of both hemispheres; 14 species in China.[1]
Distribution
Range and Population
Caribbean
Similar Species
Members of the genus Vitex:
There are approximately 614 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: V. obovata wilmsii · V. acuminata · V. acunae · V. adulterina · V. aesculifolia · V. agelaeifolia · V. agelaeifolia var. rufula · V. agnus · V. agnus-castus (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus 'Abbeville Blue' (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus 'Alba' (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus 'Blue Spire' · V. agnus-castus 'Blushing Bride' · V. agnus-castus 'Blushing Spires' (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus 'Lavender Lady' (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus 'Montrose Purple' (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus 'Rosea' · V. agnus-castus 'Shoal Creek' (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus 'Silver Spire' (Silver Spire Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus 'Silver Spires' (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus L. var. agnus-castus L. · V. agnus-castus var. agnus-castus · V. agnus-castus var. caerulea · V. agnus-castus var. latifolia (Chaste Tree) · V. agnus-castus var. subtrisecta · V. agnuscastus · V. agraria · V. aherniana · V. ajugaeflora · V. alata · V. altissima · V. altissima f. alata · V. altmanni · V. amaniensis · V. amazonica · V. amboniensis · V. andongensis · V. angolensis · V. angus-castus · V. annamense · V. annamensis · V. appendiculata · V. appuni · V. arborea · V. articulata · V. aurea · V. avicennioides · V. babula · V. bahiensis · V. bakeri · V. balbi · V. balbisii · V. bankae · V. bantamensis · V. barbata · V. befotakensis · V. benthamiana · V. benuensis · V. bequaertii · V. beraviensis · V. beraviensis f. pilosa · V. beraviensis f. villosa · V. berteroana · V. betsiliensis · V. betsiliensis baronum · V. betsiliensis subsp. barorum · V. bicolor · V. bignonioides · V. bipindensis · V. bogalensis · V. bogoriensis · V. bojeri · V. bojeri var. suborbicularis · V. bombacifolia · V. bracteata · V. bracteosa · V. brasiliensis · V. brevilabiata · V. brevipetiolata · V. brittoniana · V. buchanani · V. buchananii · V. buchneri · V. buddingii · V. bulusanensis · V. bunguensis · V. burmensis · V. caespitosa · V. californica · V. calothyrsa · V. camporum · V. canescens · V. cannabifolia (Chinese Chaste Tree) · V. capitata · V. capitata f. albiflora · V. capulin · V. carbunculorum · V. caribaea · V. carvalhi · V. cauliflora
Bibliography
- P'ei Chien & Chen Shou-liang, eds. 1982. Verbenaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 65(1): 1-229.
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Notes
Contributors:
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
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Footnotes:
- "Vitex". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 28. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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