Wallenia lamarckiana

(Jacanillo)

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Spermatophytina (auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Seed Plants
        Infraphylum: Angiospermae auct.
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Dilleniidae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Primulanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal, 1996
        Order: Primulales Bromhead, 1838
        Family: Myrsinaceae (MER-sy-nee) R. Brown, 1810 - Myrsine Family
        Genus: Wallenia - Jacanillo
        Specific epithet: lamarckiana (A. DC.) Mez
        Botanical name: Wallenia lamarckiana (A. DC.) Mez

Unambiguous Synonyms:

Petesioides pendula (Urban) Britt.
Wallenia pendula (Urban) Mez

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Physical Description

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Family Myrsinaceae:

Trees, shrubs, climbers [or rarely herbs]. Leaves simple, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, without stipules, often glandular. Inflorescences terminal, axillary, or at apices of lateral branches, racemose (often paniculate), corymbose, cymose, umbellate, or fascicled on scaly spur branches in leaf axils. Flowers bisexual or polygamous, rarely unisexual and plants polygamodioecious or dioecious, 4- or 5(or 6) -merous, actinomorphic. Sepals basally connate or free, persistent, usually glandular. Petals basally connate or rarely free, usually glandular. Stamens as many as and opposite to petals, usually adnate to base or throat of corolla tube, sometimes free, rarely united into a tube; anthers 2-celled, dorsifixed, dehiscing longitudinally or by apical slits or pores, rarely transversely septate; filaments present or absent. Ovary superior, rarely inferior to half-inferior, 1-celled; placentation free-central, sometimes basal; ovules 1 to several in 11 to many rows, usually embedded in placenta, anatropous or semicampylotropous. Style 1; stigma simple or lobed. Fruit drupes with fleshy exocarp or capsules. Seeds 1 to many; endosperm fleshy or horny; embryo x = 10-13, 23.

About 42 genera and more than 2,200 species: primarily in tropical and subtropical or warm temperate regions of both hemispheres; five genera and 120 species (51 endemic) in China.

Chinese genera of economic value include Ardisia (medicine, oil, edible, wild vegetables), Maesa (edible, tea, dye), Aegiceras (tannin, fine fuel), Embelia (vermifuge, edible), Myrsine (medicine, fine wood, tannin, fuel) .^[1]

Images:

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Monte del Estado, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213470

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Sierra de Naguabo, Monte el Duque, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213463

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Sierra de Lares inter Pilates et Guajataca, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213474

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: East of Cerro de la Punta, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213462

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: El Yunque, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213473

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Isabel, Prope Utuado, ad Sta, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213476

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Maricao, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213465

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Dona Juana Waterfall, Toro Negro, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213464

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Radley, Bosque de Rio Abajo, area cercana a camp, Utuado, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213479

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Alto de la Bandera, near Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213467

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Aibonito, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213471

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Prope Yabucoa, ad Guajataca, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213469

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Quebradillas, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213478

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Río Abajo forest, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213475

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Vicinty of Mayaguez, Quebrado de Limones, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213477

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: slope & summit of Monte La Torrecilla, Barrio Barrancas: upper NE, Barranquitas, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213468

Wallenia lamarckiana Wallenia lamarckiana Photographer: The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Date Taken: 2007
Location Taken: Mountain forest south of Maricao, Puerto Rico Copyright: © 2007 This image belongs to The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium. ZipcodeZoo Photo ID: 213472

Distribution

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Range and Population

Caribbean

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Wallenia:

There are approximately 44 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: W. jacquinioides montecristensis · W. angularis · W. angulata · W. angustifolia · W. apiculata · W. aquifolia · W. bumelioides · W. calyptrata · W. clusiifolia · W. clusioides · W. corymbosa · W. crassifolia · W. discolor · W. ekmanii · W. elliptica · W. erythrocarpa · W. fawcettii · W. formonensis · W. garcilis · W. gracilis · W. grisebachii · W. hughsonii · W. ilicifolia · W. jacquinioides · W. jacquinioides subsp. montecristensis · W. jacquinoides · W. lamarckiana (Jacanillo) · W. laurifolia · W. laurifolia var. raunkiaeri · W. laxiflora · W. lepperi · W. maestrensis · W. myrianthos · W. nemoralis · W. punctulata · W. purdieana · W. purpurascens · W. purpurascens var. corymbifera · W. subverticillata · W. sylvestris · W. urbaniana · W. venosa · W. xylosteoides · W. yunquensis (El Yunque Jacanillo)

Bibliography

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Chen Chieh. 1979. Myrsinaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 58: 1-147.

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Notes

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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.
Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/Taxonomicon/]. Access date: Nov 23, 2005

Identifiers:

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 505739
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 293094
Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:590414-1
U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: WAPE
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 55016

Footnotes:

Jie Chen & John J. Pipoly, III "Myrsinaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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Last Revised: May 16, 2008