Overview
|
Critically Endangered |
 |
 | |
 |
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in Spanish:
Pelotilla de Chinamada
Description
Family Crassulaceae
Herbs, subshrubs
, or shrubs
. Stems mostly fleshy
. Leaves alternate, opposite, or verticillate
, usually simple
; stipules absent; leaf blade
entire or slightly incised, rarely lobed
or imparipinnate
. Inflorescences terminal
or axillary
, cymose
, corymbiform
, spiculate
, racemose, paniculate
, or sometimes reduced to a solitary flower. Flowers usually bisexual
, sometimes unisexual
in Rhodiola (when plants
dioecious or rarely gynodioecious
), actinomorphic
, (3 or) 4-6(-30) -merous. Sepals almost free
or basally connate
, persistent
. Petals free or connate. Stamens as many as petals in 1 series or 2 × as many in 2 series. Nectar scales
at or near base
of carpels. Follicles sometimes fewer than sepals, free or basally connate, erect
or spreading
, membranous or leathery, 1- to many seeded. Seeds small; endosperm scanty or not developed.
About 35 genera and over 1500 species: Africa, America, Asia, Europe; 13 genera (two endemic, one introduced
) and 233 species (129 endemic, one introduced) in China.
Some species of Crassulaceae are cultivated as ornamentals
and/or used medicinally.[1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
Ecology:
This species grows in fissures
, crevices and small paths in steep
rocky basaltic slopes
. M.
wildpretii
forms part of rupiculous communities such as Aeonietum
canariensis (Soncho-Aeonion)
and is frequently accompanied by Monanthes
laxiflora, Paronychia canariensis, Aeonium ciliatum, Roccella canariensis
and R. fuciformis.
[2].
List of Habitats
:
- 6 Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks) [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:
Saxifraganae
()
- Reveal, 1994
- Order:
Rosales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Crassulaceae
()
- J. St.-Hil., 1805
- orpins, stonecrops
- Family:
Crassulaceae
(
- Order:
Rosales
(
- Superorder:
Saxifraganae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author
: Bañares & S.Scholz Publication
: in Stud.
Bot. (Salamanca), 9: 129 (1990 publ. 1991) 1991
A tentatively accepted name
in the RHS
Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Monanthes
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 9 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
M. adenoscepes (Monanthes) · M. amydros (Monanthes) · M. laxiflora (Monanthes) · M. minima (Monanthes) · M. monanthes (Single-Sorus Spleenwort) · M. muralis (Monanthes) · M. pallens (Monanthes) · M. polyphylla (Monanthes) · M. praegeri (Monanthes)
More Info
- Search for Pictures: images.google.com
- Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
- Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
- Succulent plants in trade from the wild: analysis of conservation status and international trade UK Dept of the Environment, Transport and Regions url p. 145.
- Fu Shu-hsia & Fu Kun-tsun. 1984. Crassulaceae. In: Fu Shu-hsia & Fu Kun-tsun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 34(1): 31-220.
Notes
Contributors
- Baares Baudet, A., Carqu lamo, E. & Marrero Gmez, M.V. 2011. Monanthes wildpretii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
- European Environment Agency: EUNIS
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:958696-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 958696-1
- IUCN ID: 224127
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 755070
Footnotes
- Kunjun Fu, Hideaki Ohba & Michael G. Gilbert "Crassulaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 202. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Bañares Baudet, A., Carqué Álamo, E. & Marrero Gómez, M.V. 2011. Monanthes wildpretii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
