Minquartia guianensis

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Family Olacaceae

Shrubs , scandent shrubs, trees , or lianas, sometimes hemiparasitic, often glabrous . Lateral shoots sometimes with bud scales at base . Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite; petiole well developed; leaf blade simple , margin entire; veins usually pinnate, sometimes palmate and 3-5-veined. Inflorescences axillary , rarely also terminal , cymose , fasciculate, racemelike, spikelike, or umbellate , mostly small; bracts small and inconspicuous. Flowers usually bisexual , actinomorphic , 3-7-merous, sometimes heterostylous. Calyx small at anthesis , cupular, discoid , or lobed , sometimes accrescent to partly or wholly covering fruit, sometimes fused to fruit (in Schoepfia) . Petals free or basally connate , valvate . Disk cuplike or annular , rarely free glands, sometimes accrescent and covering fruit apex (in Schoepfia) . Stamens 3-15, rarely in part staminodes, epipetalous ; anthers basi- or medi-fixed, usually 2-loculed, longitudinally dehiscent . Ovary usually superior, rarely semisuperior but sometimes apparently inferior through fusion with calyx, 2-5-loculed or semiloculed with apex of ovary 1-loculed; ovules solitary in each locule or semilocule, pendent from apex of free central placenta, usually anatropous , integuments 1 or 2. Style terminal, simple; stigma 2-5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, sometimes with an accrescent calyx. Seed solitary; testa thin; endosperm abundant; embryo small; cotyledons 2-4.

Between 23 and 27 genera and 180 250 species: tropical and warm-temperate regions worldwide; five genera (one endemic) and ten species (three endemic) in China.[1]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,936 meters (0 to 16,194 feet).[2]

Ecology: Lowland moist forest types.[3].

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Aubl. Publication : Hist. Pl. Guiane 2(Suppl.): 4 1775

Similar Species

Members of the genus Minquartia

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

M. guianensis (Black Manwood)

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Further Reading

• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 29 1983 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 166, p. 205.
• Conservation and sustainable management of trees, report of the second regional workshop, held at CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica, 18-20 November 1996 WCMC url p. 57.
• Contribution to an evaluation of tree species using the new CITES Listing Criteria CITES url p. 11, p. 216.
• Contributions to the flora of Venezuela / Julian A. Steyermark and collaborators. 28 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 1210, p. 896.
• Fifty years of botany; golden jubilee volume of the Botanical Society of America, edited by William Campbell Steere. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958. url p. 307.
• Flora Costaricensis / William Burger, editor. 13 1983 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1983. url p. 23, p. 24.
• Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1937 Chicago, 1937. url p. 409.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 17 1997 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 229.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 98.
• The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: the Americas IUCN url p. 329.
• The World List of Threatened Trees WCMC, IUCN url p. 366.
• The conservation and sustainable use of the crop genetic resources of Central America. A Darwin initiative funded project. Report on phase 1 WCMC url p. 36.
• Ling Yeou-ruenn. 1988. Olacaceae. In: Kiu Hua-shing & Ling Yeou-ruenn, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 24: 3046.

Notes

Contributors

• Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica) 1998. Minquartia guianensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
• 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
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 04, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 15 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 04, 2007:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Biologiezentrum Linz
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium Darwin Core format
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Herbier de la Guyane, Herbier de la Guyane
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• SysTax, Herbarium Universitat Ulm
• SysTax, SysTax

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15655613
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:110121-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 110121-1
• IUCN ID: 223883
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 754871

Footnotes

1. Huaxing Qiu & Michael G. Gilbert "Olacaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 200. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 491.590 meters (1,612.828 feet), Standard Deviation = 792.240 based on 554 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
3. Americas Regional Workshop (Conservation & Sustainable Management of Trees, Costa Rica) 1998. Minquartia guianensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]

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