Myrica faya

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Myricaceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen or deciduous, monoecious or dioecious, aromatic , often with resinous , peltate glands . Leaves alternate, simple , pinnately veined, entire to irregularly serrate or lobed , rarely pinnatifid ; stipules absent or rarely present. Flowers in spikes, usually unisexual , anemophilous , without perianth. Male flowers solitary in axil of each bract, with 2-4 bracteoles or not. Stamens 2-20, often 4-8 on receptacle at base of bract; filaments short, free or slightly united at base; anthers erect , dithecal , extrorse , dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers solitary or 2-4 in axil of bract, usually with 2-4 bracteoles. Gynoecium of 2 carpels united into a compound and 1-loculed ovary; styles distinct or united only at base; ovule solitary, basal, erect, orthotropous . Fruit drupaceous , or nearly a nutlet , often with headlike, wax-covered papillae; endocarp hard. Seeds nearly without endosperm; embryo straight; cotyledons fleshy , plano-convex .

Three genera and ca. 50 species: widespread in both hemispheres, mostly in temperate or subtropical regions; one genus and four species (two endemic) in China.[1]

Genus Myrica

Trees or shrubs evergreen or deciduous, dioecious or monoecious, with resinous , peltate glands in young parts. Leaves simple , often aggregated at apex of shoot , margin entire or serrate; stipules absent. Flowering precocious or coetaneous . Inflorescences spicate , simple or paniculate . Male flowers with 2-8(-20) stamens; filaments free or united at base , with bracteoles or not. Female flowers with 2-4 bracteoles adnate to ovary and enlarged, or free and not enlarged; ovary with resinous glands; style short, with 2 relatively long stigmatic branches. Fruit a drupe, often with headlike, wax-covered papillae; endocarp hard. Seeds erect , with membranous testa.

About 50 species: nearly worldwide except for some warm temperate parts of Old World and Australia; four species (two endemic) in China.[2]

Habitat

Ecology: A locally abundant component of laurisilva, occurring in lower altitudes mostly in areas which are disturbed .[3].

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Aiton Publication : Hortus Kew. (W. Aiton) 3: 397 1789

May be better known as Morella faya (Aiton) Wilbur in Sida 16(1): 103 (1994).[3].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Myrica

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

M. comptonia (Sweetgale) · M. gale (Bog Myrtle) · M. gale var. gale (Sweetgale) · M. hartwegii (Sierra Bayberry) · M. rivas-martinezii (Faya Herre) · M. rubra (Chinese Arbutus)

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

• Annual report Missouri Botanical Garden. 8 1897 St. Louis: Board of Trustees, 1890-1912. url p. 150.
• Botany of to-day, a popular account of recent notable discoveries. London, Seeley, 1911. url , .
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1913. url p. 262, p. 267.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1914 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 308, p. 312, p. 313, p. 316, p. 317, p. 318.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: The Museum, 1951-1992. url p. 174, p. 192, p. 234.
• Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. London: The Natural History Museum, c1993-2002. url p. 33, p. 6.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url p. 150.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1992 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 1302.
• Harmful non-indigenous species in the U.S.: hearings before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, March 11 and 15, 1994. Washington: For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 1994. url p. 130.
• IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania IUCN url p. 442.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 89.
• Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates / London: Macmillan, 1911. url p. 260.
• Island life; or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates, by Alfred Russel Wallace. London, Macmillan, 1880. url p. 260.
• Journal of Hymenoptera research. Washington, D.C.: International Society of Hymenopterists, [1992- url p. 95.
• Journal of botany, British and foreign. 42 1904 London: Robert Hardwicke, 1863-1942. url p. 181.
• Nature. London, Macmillan. url p. 570.
• Notes by a naturalist: an account of observations made during the voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" round the world in the years 1872-1876 / by H. N. Moseley. New York: Putnam, 1892. url p. 532.
• Occasional papers of the Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany. 15 1980 Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany. url p. 48, p. 56.
• Occasional papers on mollusks. 4 1981 Cambridge, Mass.: Dept. of Mollusks, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1945- url p. 248.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 391.
• Plants in Danger: what do we know? IUCN url p. 25.
• Sourcebook on Remote Sensing and Biodiversity Indicators. Convention on Biological Diversity Technical Series 32 CBD url p. 168.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 103.
• The Universal herbal; or, Botanical, medical, and agricultural dictionary; containing an account of all the known plants in the world, arranged according to the Linnean system. Specifying the uses to which they are or may be applied, whether as food, as medicine, or in the a London, Caxton Press[1824] url p. 863.
• The World's Protected Areas. Status, Values and Prospects in the 21st Century UNEP-WCMC url p. 89.
• The journal of the Horticultural Society of London. London, [England]: Published for the Society, by Longman and Co., 1846-1855. url p. 238.
• The voyage of the "Challenger": the Atlantic: a preliminary account of the general results of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876 / by Sir C. Wyville Thomson. New York: Harper, 1878. url p. 34, p. 39.
• Threatened non-marine molluscs of Europe Council of Europe url p. 55.
• Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming. 1979. Myricaceae. In: Kuang Ko-zen & Li Pei-chun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 21: 1-6.
• Kuang Ko-zen & Lu An-ming. 1979. Myricaceae. In: Kuang Ko-zen & Li Pei-chun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 21: 1-6.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Myrica faya. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2769903
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13747918
• IUCN ID: 225196
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3963804

Footnotes

1. Anmin Lu & Allan J. Bornstein "Myricaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 275. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Anmin Lu & Allan J. Bornstein "Myrica". in Flora of China Vol. 4 Page 275. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Myrica faya. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]

©2004-2012 David Stang. All rights reserved.