Actinidia stellatopilosa

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Overview

Endangered

Description

Family Actinidiaceae

Trees , shrubs , or woody vines . Leaves alternate, simple , shortly or long petiolate , not stipulate . Flowers bisexual or unisexual or plants polygamous or functionally dioecious, usually fascicled, cymose , or paniculate . Sepals (2 or 3 or) 5, imbricate, rarely valvate . Petals (4 or) 5, sometimes more, imbricate. Stamens 10 to numerous , distinct or adnate to base of petals, hypogynous; anthers 2-celled, versatile, dehiscing by apical pores or longitudinally. Ovary superior, disk absent, locules and carpels 3-5 or more; placentation axile ; ovules anatropous with a single integument, 10 or more per locule; styles as many as carpels, distinct or connate (then only one style), generally persistent . Fruit a berry or leathery capsule. Seeds not arillate , with usually large embryos and abundant endosperm.

Three genera and ca. 357 species: Asia and the Americas; three genera (one endemic) and 66 species (52 endemic) in China.

Economically, kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa) is an important fruit, which originated in central China and is especially common along the Yangtze River (well known as yang-tao) . Now, it is widely cultivated throughout the world.[1]

Genus Actinidia

Climbing shrubs , glabrous or hairy , indumentum of stellate or simple hairs ; pith solid or lamellate . Branches usually with linear , lengthwise lenticels ; winter buds small, enclosed in swollen base of petiole or exposed. Leaves often long petiolate ; stipules minute, obsolete , or absent; leaf blade membranous, papery , or leathery, venation penniveined, veinlets reticulate , usually in cross-bars, margin serrate or dentate , rarely entire. Inflorescences cymose , axillary , often pseudo-umbellate, few- or many flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts present, minute. Flowers white, pink, red, yellow, or green, bisexual , plants polygamous or functionally dioecious. Sepals (2-) 5(or 6), distinct or connate at base, imbricate, rarely valvate , persistent or not. Petals (4 or) 5(or more than 5), imbricate. Stamens numerous , in functionally female flowers often with shorter filaments and smaller sterile anthers ; filaments slender; anthers yellow, brown, purple, or black, versatile, attached at middle , 2-celled, dehiscing lengthwise, usually divaricate at base. Disk absent. Ovary ovoid , cylindrical, or bottle-shaped, glabrous or hairy, many loculed; ovules numerous per locule; styles as many as carpels (15-30), usually reflexed , persistent, radiating, in functionally female flower elongating after anthesis ; rudimentary ovary in functionally male flower very small, with minute styles. Fruit a berry, globose , ovoid, or oblong , spotted with lenticels or not, glabrous or hairy. Seeds numerous, oblong, small, immersed in pulp; testa cartilaginous , reticulate-pitted; albumen copious and abundant; embryo comparatively large, cylindrical, straight, at center of albumen; cotyledons short.

About 55 species: E and S Asia; 52 species (44 endemic) in China.[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : C.Y.Chang Publication : in Bull . Bot. Lab. North-East. Forest . Inst., 1980(8): 86 (1980), as 'stellato-pilosa' 1980

Similar Species

Members of the genus Actinidia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 211 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. acuminata · A. aff. strigosa · A. albicalyx · A. ananasnaja · A. arguta (Red-Fleshed Actinidia Fruit) · A. arguta 'Ananasnaja' (Hardy Kiwi) · A. arguta 'Ananasnaya' · A. arguta 'Chico' (Hardy Kiwi) · A. arguta 'Dumbarton Oaks' (Hardy Kiwi) · A. arguta 'Geneva' · A. arguta 'Geneva' HHII · A. arguta 'Issai' (Hardy Kiwi Vine (Self Fertile Female)) · A. arguta 'Jumbo' · A. arguta 'Kiwai Vert' · A. arguta LL#2 · A. arguta LL#3 · A. arguta LL #1 · A. arguta 'Meader' · A. arguta 'Meader No 2' · A. arguta 'Michigan State' · A. arguta 'Stamford' · A. arguta var. arguta · A. arguta var. cordifolia · A. arguta var. cordifolia 'Meyer's' (Kiwi) · A. arguta var. giraldii · A. arguta var. nervosa · A. arguta var. platyphylla · A. arguta var. purpurea (Purple Chinese Gooseberry) · A. arguta var. rufa (Rufa Vine) · A. arguta 'Weiki' · A. arisanensis · A. asymmetrica · A. callosa · A. callosa henryi · A. callosa var. acuminata · A. callosa var. callosa · A. callosa var. discolor · A. callosa var. ephippioidea · A. callosa var. formosana · A. callosa var. henryi · A. callosa var. strigillosa · A. carnosifolia · A. carnosifolia var. glaucescens · A. championi · A. championii · A. changii · A. chartacea · A. chengkouensis · A. chinensis (Yellow-Fleshed Actinidia) · A. chinensis f. jinggangshanensis · A. chinensis 'Hayward' (Chinese Gooseberry) · A. chinensis 'Saanichton 12' (Chinese Gooseberry) · A. chinensis var. chinensis · A. chinensis var. hispida · A. chinensis var. jinggangshanensis · A. chinensis var. rufopulpa (Red-Fleshed Actinidia) · A. chinensis var. setosa · A. chrysantha · A. cinerascens · A. cinerascens var. longipetiolata · A. cinerascens var. tenuifolia · A. cordifolia · A. coriacea · A. curvidens · A. cylindrica · A. cylindrica var. reticulata · A. davidii · A. deliciosa (Green-Fleshed Actinidia) · A. deliciosa 'Abbott' · A. deliciosa 'Atlas' · A. deliciosa 'Blake' · A. deliciosa 'Boskoop' · A. deliciosa 'Bruno' · A. deliciosa 'Hayward' · A. deliciosa hermaphrodite · A. deliciosa 'Jenny' · A. deliciosa 'Matua' · A. deliciosa 'Saanichton 12' · A. deliciosa 'Solo' · A. deliciosa 'Tomuri' · A. deliciosa var. chlorocarpa · A. deliciosa var. coloris (Red-Fleshed Actinidia) · A. deliciosa var. longipila · A. deliciosa 'Vincent' · A. dielsii · A. eriantha (Velvet Vine) · A. eriantha f. alba · A. eriantha var. brunnea · A. eriantha var. calvescens · A. erythrocarpa · A. fairchildii · A. fanjingshanensis · A. farinosa · A. fasciculoides · A. fasciculoides var. cuneata · A. fasciculoides var. orbiculata · A. faveolata · A. formosana · A. fortunati · A. fulvicoma

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Further Reading

• Liang Chou-fen, Chen Yong-chang & Wang Yu-sheng. 1984. Actinidiaceae (excluding Sladenia). In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 195-301, 309-334.
• X. W. Li, J. Q. Li, and D. D. Soejarto (Acta Phytotax. Sin. 45: 633-660. 2007).

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Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed April 6, 2007.
• China Plant Specialist Group 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 28, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Plant Characteristics Database. Accessed April 17, 2006.
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesFeb 2, 2006.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5900188
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:896328-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 896328-1
• IUCN ID: 46392
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1029331

Footnotes

1. Jianqiang Li, Li Xinwei & D. Doel Soejarto "Actinidiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 334,364. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Actinidia". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 334. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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