Overview
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Golden Pagoda
Description
Family Proteaceae
Trees
or shrubs
. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or whorled
, simple
or variously divided
. Inflorescences axillary
, ramiflorous
, cauliflorous
, or terminal
, simple or rarely compound
, with flowers borne laterally either in pairs or sometimes singly, racemose, sometimes spicate
, paniculate
, or condensed into a head
; bracts subtending
flower pairs usually small, sometimes accrescent
and woody; floral
bracts usually minute or absent. Flowers bisexual
or rarely unisexual
and dioecious, actinomorphic
or zygomorphic. Perianth segments (3 or) 4(or 5), valvate
, usually tubular
in bud; limb short, variously split at anthesis
. Stamens 4, opposite perianth segments; filaments
usually adnate
to perianth and not distinct
; anthers
basifixed
, usually 2-loculed, longitudinally dehiscent
, connective
often prolonged. Hypogynous glands
4 (or 1-3 or absent), free
or variously connate
. Ovary superior, 1-loculed, sessile or stipitate
; ovules 1 or 2(or more), pendulous, laterally or basally, rarely subapically attached. Style terminal, simple, often apically clavate
; stigma terminal or lateral
, mostly small. Fruit a follicle, achene, or drupe or drupaceous
. Seeds 1 or 2(or few to many), sometimes winged
; endosperm absent (or vestigial) ; embryo usually straight; cotyledons thin or thick and fleshy
; radicle short, inferior.
About 80 genera and ca.
1700 species: mostly in tropics and subtropics, especially in S Africa and Australia: three genera (one introduced
) and 25 species (12 endemic, two introduced) in China.
The family
is subdivided into Bellendenoideae, Caranarvonioideae, Eidotheoideae, Grevilleoideae, Persoonioideae, Proteoideae, and Sphalmioideae; all Chinese genera belong to Grevilleoideae. Grevillea robusta is grown extensively as a street tree in S China, especially in Yunnan.[1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Ecology: The species has been recorded from relatively dense dry mountain fynbos vegetation, usually on steep southeast facing sandstone slopes
at elevations
between 800 and 1,040 m.
It flowers mainly in April and May and the fruits take eight months to mature
before they are shed in December. The species regenerates purely from seed, therefore it is important that fires are not too frequent to prevent the maintenance
of the soil-stored seedbanks.[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 3 Shrubland
- 3.5 Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry
- 4 Grassland
- 4.5 Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry [more info]
Taxonomy
- 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:
Proteanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Proteales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Proteaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- proteas
- Genus:
Mimetes
()
- Specific epithet:
chrysanthus
- J.P. Rourke
- Botanical name: - Mimetes chrysanthus J.P. Rourke
- Specific epithet:
chrysanthus
- J.P. Rourke
- Genus:
Mimetes
(
- Family:
Proteaceae
(
- Order:
Proteales
(
- Superorder:
Proteanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Mimetes
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
M. chrysanthus (Golden Pagoda)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Hilton-Taylor, C. 1998. Mimetes chrysanthus: vulnerable beauty. World Conservation 2/98: 11-12.
- Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
- Rourke, J. 1988. Mimetes chrysanthus. Veld and Flora 74: 143-144.
- Rourke, J.P. 1988. A new species of Mimetes (Proteaceae) from the southern Cape. South African Journal of Botany 54: 636-639.
Notes
Contributors
- Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. Mimetes chrysanthus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5970662
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15801644
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:936110-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 936110-1
- IUCN ID: 223806
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1025853
Footnotes
- Huaxing Qiu & Peter H. Weston "Proteaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 192. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. Mimetes chrysanthus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
