Description
Family Rutaceae
The Rutaceae are herbs, shrubs , and trees with glandular punctate , commonly strongly smelling herbage comprising about 150 genera and 1,500 species that are further characterized by the common occurrence of spines and winged petioles . The leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound , or sometimes heathlike or reduced to spines; stipules are absent. The flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual , and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. The calyx consists of 3-5 distinct or basally connate sepals and the corolla consists of 3-5 distinct or sometimes connate petals or rarely the petals are lacking. The androecium consists of distinct or sometimes connate stamens that are commonly obdiplostemonous , that is in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals. However, sometimes there may be (1)3-4 whorls or rarely up to 60 stamens. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of commonly 2-5 or more, often incompletely connate carpels that may be united only basally or apically, either one or an equal number of styles , and a superior ovary with usually 2-5 or more locules, each bearing 1-several axile ovules. Generally, an intrastaminal nectary disk is situated between the stamens and the ovary. The fruit is variable. -- Gerald Carr.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- 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
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Murraya
There are approximately 43 species in this genus:
M. alata · M. alternans · M. amoena · M. banati · M. brevifolia · M. burmanni · M. buxifolia · M. caloxylon · M. cerasiformis · M. chinensis · M. crenulata · M. elliptica · M. elongata · M. euchrestifolia · M. exotica (Lakeview Jasmine) · M. exotica var. pubescens · M. flava · M. foetidissima · M. glabra · M. glenieii · M. grayi · M. heptaphylla · M. japonensis · M. koenigii (Curry Leaf) · M. kwangsiensis · M. kwangsiensis var. macrophylla · M. lobata · M. longifolia · M. microphylla · M. odorata · M. omphalocarpa · M. ovatifoliolata · M. paniculata · M. paniculata 'Lakeview' (Chinese Box) · M. paniculata var. exotica · M. scandens · M. siamensis · M. sorsogonensis · M. stenocarpa · M. sumatrana · M. tavoyana · M. tetramera · M. unifoliolata
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Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5871031
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15829802
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:774413-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3680160
