Common Names
Common Names in English:
Biddy Biddy, Pale Biddy Biddy, Pale Biddy-Biddy
Description
Family Rosaceae
Trees
, shrubs
, or herbs, deciduous or evergreen
. Stems erect
, scandent
, arching
, prostrate
, or creeping
, armed
or unarmed
. Buds usually with several exposed scales
, sometimes with only 2. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple
or compound
; stipules paired
, free
or adnate
to petiole
, rarely absent, persistent
or deciduous; petiole usually 2-glandular apically; leaf blade
often serrate at margin
, rarely entire. Inflorescences various, from single flowers to umbellate
, corymbose
, racemose or cymose-paniculate. Flowers usually actinomorphic
, bisexual
, rarely unisexual
and then plants
dioecious. Hypanthium (formed from basal parts of sepals, petals, and stamens) free from or adnate to ovary, short or elongate
. Sepals usually 5, rarely fewer or more, imbricate; epicalyx
segments sometimes also present. Petals as many as sepals, inserted
below margin of disk, free, imbricate, sometimes absent. Disk lining hypanthium, usually entire, rarely lobed
. Stamens usually numerous
, rarely few, always in a complete
ring
at margin of or above disk; filaments
usually free, very rarely connate
; anthers
small, didymous
, rarely elongate, 2-locular. Carpels 1 to many, free, or ± connate and then adnate to inner surface of cupular receptacle; ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or superior; ovules usually 2 in each carpel, rarely 1 or several, anatropous
, superposed
. Styles as many as carpels, terminal
, lateral
, or basal, free or sometimes connate. Fruit a follicle, pome, achene, or drupe, rarely a capsule, naked or enclosed in persistent hypanthium and sometimes also by sepals. Seeds erect or pendulous, sometimes winged
, usually exalbuminous
, very rarely with thin endosperm; cotyledons mostly fleshy
and convex
abaxially, rarely folded or convolute.
Between 95 and 125 genera and 2825-3500 species: cosmopolitan
, mostly in N temperate
zone; 55 genera (two endemic) and 950 species (546 endemic) in China.
Many plants of this family
are of economic importance and contribute to people s livelihoods. The Rosaceae contain a great number of fruit trees of temperate regions
. The fruits contain vitamins, acids, and sugars
and can be used both raw and for making preserves, jam, jelly, candy, various drinks, wine, vinegar, etc.
The dried fruits of the genera
Amygdalus and Armeniaca are of high commercial
value. Some plants in the genus Rosa containing essential oils or with a high vitamin content are used in industry
. Rosaceae wood is used for making various articles, stems and roots
are used for making tannin extract, and young leaves are used as a substitute for tea. Numerous species are used for medical purposes or are cultivated as ornamentals
.
The Rosaceae are very well represented in China, with great economic and scientific importance. The Co-chairs of the Editorial Committee (Wu and Raven) here note
that the patterns
of relationship
are complex
and the group is taxonomically difficult. [1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Flowers: Bloom Period: July, August. • Flower Color: inconspicuous, none
Size/Age/Growth
Size: under 6" tall.
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Growth
Culture: Space 6-9" apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)
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:
Rosanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Rosales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Family:
Rosaceae
()
- Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
- Rose Family
- Subfamily:
Rosoideae
()
- Tribe:
Sanguisorbeae
()
- Genus:
Acaena
()
- Mutis ex Linnaeus, 1771
- Specific epithet:
pallida
- (Kirk) J.W.Dawson
- Botanical name: - Acaena pallida
- Specific epithet:
pallida
- (Kirk) J.W.Dawson
- Genus:
Acaena
(
- Tribe:
Sanguisorbeae
(
- Subfamily:
Rosoideae
(
- Family:
Rosaceae
(
- Order:
Rosales
(
- Superorder:
Rosanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Name
Status: Provisionally Accepted Name
. Latest taxonomic
scrutiny: –
Name verified on
Place of publication
: Flora
of New Zealand 1:360. 1961
Name verified on 27-Apr-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
Similar Species
Members of the genus Acaena
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 493 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
A. acris · A. acrobyssina · A. aculeata · A. adscendens · A. adscendens 'Glauca' · A. adscendens subsp. cardiostemon · A. adscendens var. majuscula · A. agnipila · A. agnipila var. aequispina · A. agnipila var. agnipila · A. agnipila var. protenta · A. agnipila var. tenuispica · A. alpina · A. alpine · A. andicola · A. andina · A. anserinacea · A. anserinifolia · A. anserinifolia subsp. anserinifolia · A. anserinifolia subsp. elata · A. anserinifolia subsp. epoligotricha · A. anserinifolia subsp. interruptepinnata · A. anserinifolia subsp. oleosenitens · A. anserinifolia subsp. utrinquestrigulosa · A. anserinifolia var. antarctica · A. anserinifolia var. brevifoliolata · A. anserinifolia var. microphylla (Biddy Biddy) · A. anserinifolia var. paucidens · A. anserinifolia var. robusta · A. anserinifolia var. sericeinitens · A. anserinifolia var. subincisa · A. anserinifolia x inermis · A. anserovina · A. antarctica · A. aquatica · A. argentea · A. argentea f. epargyrea · A. argentea f. nigricans · A. argentea f. viridis · A. argentea forma epargyrea · A. argentea forma nigricans · A. argentea forma viridis · A. argentea var. brevifoliolata · A. argentea var. breviscapa · A. argentea var. contracta · A. argentea var. coriacea · A. argentea var. gracilis · A. argentea var. gracillima · A. argentea var. grandiceps · A. argentea var. humilis · A. argentea var. interruptepinnata · A. argentea var. lanigera · A. argentea var. pluribracteata · A. argentea var. subcalvescens · A. ascendens · A. asthenoglochin · A. australis · A. basibullata · A. behriana · A. berteriana · A. boliviana · A. 'Breisgau' · A. brunnescens · A. buchanani · A. buchananii (New Zealand Burr) · A. buchananii f. erubescens · A. buchananii forma erubescens · A. buchananii longissimefilamentosa · A. buchananii var. inermis · A. buchananii var. picta · A. buchanii · A. cadilla · A. cadilla f. epistemonocoma · A. cadilla f. pusilla · A. cadilla forma epistemonocoma · A. cadilla forma pusilla · A. caesiglauca · A. caesiiglauca (New Zealand Bur) · A. caesiiglauca 'Frikart' · A. caesiiglauca var. pilosa · A. caespitosa · A. calcitrapa · A. californica · A. calvivagina · A. capitata · A. closiana · A. confertissima · A. coxi · A. craspedotricha · A. cunctatrix · A. cylindristachya · A. cylindristachya subvar. pusilla · A. cylindristachya var. composita · A. cylindristachya var. macrophyllidion · A. cylindristachya var. nitidissima · A. cylindristachya var. pilosinervis · A. cylindrostachya · A. decumbens · A. decumbens x tenera · A. decumbens x tenera
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Further Reading
- Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand. (F NZeal)
- Foreman, D. B. & N. G. Walsh. 1993–. Flora of Victoria. (F Victoria) [mentions].
- Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep) [mentions].
- Yü Te-tsun, Lu Ling-ti, Ku Tsue-chih, Li Chao-luan, Kuan Ke-chien & Chiang Wan-fu. 1974, 1985, 1986. Rosaceae. In: Yü Te-tsun, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 36: 1443; 37: 1516; 38: 1133.
Notes
Contributors
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- Barneby RC & Grimes JW (Monograph 1996/97), 2001-05 (from ILDIS).
- Barneby RC and Forero E, 1994/1995 (from ILDIS).
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- 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
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- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 24, 2008)
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Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 29, 2008:
- Australian National Herbarium
- , Australian National Herbarium
- National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10914643
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: IOP-Ros-25-300012581
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:169930-3
- GRIN Nomen Number: 316531
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 565976
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 720076-1
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ACPA14
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12992
Footnotes
- Cuizhi Gu, Chaoluan Li, Lingdi Lu, Shunyuan Jiang, Crinan Alexander, Bruce Bartholomew, Anthony R. Brach, David E. Boufford, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba, Kenneth R. Robertson & Steven A. Spongberg "Rosaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 46. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
