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Antirhea sintenisii

(Sintenis' Quina)

Overview

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Vulnerable

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Sintenis' Quina

Description

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Family Rubiaceae

The Rubiaceae are trees , shrubs , or infrequently herbs comprising about 450 genera and 6,500 species, including some lianous forms. The leaves are simple and usually entire, and are opposite or sometimes whorled ; stipules are present and interpetiolar . The flowers are nearly always bisexual and actinomorphic , often heterostylous, and usually are in cymose inflorescences. The calyx is mostly somewhat reduced and 4-5-lobed or sometimes the lobes are obsolete or rarely one of them greatly expanded and brightly colored . The sympetalous corolla is mostly 4-5-lobed, occasionally with 3 or up to 10 lobes. The androecium consists of as many stamens as corolla lobes and is adnate to the corolla tube or epigynous zone, alternate with the lobes. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2 or seldom more carpels, a single style, and a nearly always inferior ovary with the number of locules equaling the number of carpels, each with 1-many axile ovules. An epigynous nectary disk is usually present. The fruit is variable, sometimes forming multiples . -- Gerald Carr.

Habitat

Biome: Terrestrial [1].

Ecology: A tree of moist forest .[1].

Taxonomy

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Synonyms

Stenostomum sintenisii Britton

Notes

Publishing author : Urb. Publication : Symb. Antill. (Urban). 1(3): 438 1899 [29 Jun 1899]

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Antirhea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. sintenisii (Sintenis' Quina)

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Further Reading

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Notes

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Contributors

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Antirhea sintenisii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]
Last Revised: 2012-07-28