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Description
Family Dipterocarpaceae
Trees
, evergreen
or semievergreen, rarely deciduous in dry season
. Xylem with aromatic
resin in intercellular
resin canals. Branchlets
with stipular
scars
, sometimes annular
. Leaves simple
, alternate; stipules persistent
or caducous
, large or small; leaf blade
with lateral
veins pinnate, margin
entire or sinuate-crenate. Inflorescences few- or many-flowered, terminal
or axillary
racemes
or panicles; flowers usually sweetly scented; bracts usually fugacious
and minute, rarely persistent and large. Inflorescences, calyces, petals, ovary, and other parts usually with stellate
, squamate
, fascicled or free-standing hairs
. Flowers bisexual
, actinomorphic
, contorted. Calyx lobes
5, free
or united
at base
, imbricate in bud if not united. Petals 5, adnate
or connate
at base. Stamens (10-) 15 to many, free from or connate to petals; filaments
usually dilated
at base; anthers
2-celled, with 2 pollen sacs
per cell
(Chinese species) ; connective
appendages
aristate
, filiform
or stout. Ovary superior, rarely semi-inferior, slightly immersed
in torus, usually 3-loculed, each locule 2-, rarely many ovuled; ovules pendulous, lateral or anatropous
. Fruit usually nutlike, sometimes capsular
and 3-valved, 1(to many) -seeded, with persistent, variously accrescent
calyx of which 2 or more lobes are usually developed into lorate
wings
. Seed exalbuminous
; cotyledons fleshy
, equal or unequal, applanate
or folded or cerebriform
, entire or laciniate
; radicle directed toward hilum
, usually included
between cotyledons.
About 17 genera and 550 species: tropical
Africa, Asia, and South America (in Asia, most species and genera in NW Borneo) ; five genera and 12 species (one endemic, one introduced
) in China.[1]
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [2].
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:
Malvanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Theales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Dipterocarpaceae
()
- Blume, 1825
- Subfamily:
Dipterocarpoideae
()
- Tribe:
Dipterocarpeae
()
- Genus:
Stemonoporus
()
- Thwaites, 1854
- Specific epithet:
gilimalensis
- Kosterm.
- Botanical name: - Stemonoporus gilimalensis Kosterm.
- Specific epithet:
gilimalensis
- Kosterm.
- Genus:
Stemonoporus
(
- Tribe:
Dipterocarpeae
(
- Subfamily:
Dipterocarpoideae
(
- Family:
Dipterocarpaceae
(
- Order:
Theales
(
- Superorder:
Malvanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Kosterm. Publication : in Bull . Mus. Nation. Hist. Nat., B , Adansonia, 1981(4): 378 (1981 publ. 1982) 1982
Similar Species
Members of the genus Stemonoporus
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Further Reading
- Ashton, P. 1996. Annotations to: Conservation status listing for Dipterocarpaceae.
- Green, M.J.B. and Gunawardena, E.R. N. (comps.) 1997. Designing an optimum protected areas system for Sri Lanka's natural forests. Prepared by IUCN-The World Conservation Union and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations. (unpublished).
- Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers). 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
- Tong Shaoquan & Tao Gouda. 1990. Dipterocarpaceae. In: Li Hsiwen, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 50(2): 113-131.
Notes
Contributors
- Ashton, P. 1998. Stemonoporus gilimalensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7146652
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:901044-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 901044-1
- IUCN ID: 243694
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1023840
Footnotes
- Xi-wen Li, Jie Li & Peter S. Ashton "Dipterocarpaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 48. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Ashton, P. 1998. Stemonoporus gilimalensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 05 February 2012. [back]
