Adelobotrys panamensis

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Overview

Critically Endangered

Description

Family Melastomataceae

Herbs, shrubs , or trees (to 20 m tall), erect , climbing , or rarely epiphytic. Stipules lacking. Leaves simple , commonly opposite and decussate with one of a pair slightly smaller than other, rarely verticillate or alternate by abortion of one of a pair, usually 1-4(or 5) secondary veins on each side of midvein , originating at or near base and anastomosing apically, tertiary veins numerous, parallel, and connecting secondary veins and midvein but in Memecylon secondary veins pinnate and tertiary veins reticulate . Inflorescences cymose , umbellate , corymbose , in paniculate clusters , or a cincinnus, rarely flowers single, fascicled, or born on a spike; bracts sometimes conspicuous and persistent . Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic but androecium often slightly zygomorphic, usually (3 or) 4- or 5(or 6) -merous, perianth biseriate , perigynous; bracteoles opposite, usually caducous . Hypanthium funnel-shaped, campanulate , cyathiform , or urceolate . Calyx lobes (3-) 5(or 6), valvate (rarely connate , but not in Chinese species) . Petals (3-) 5(or 6), equal to number of sepals, distinct , imbricate. Stamens usually twice as many as petals and in 2 whorls, rarely as many as petals by loss of 1 whorl, isomorphic or dimorphic ; filaments distinct, often geniculate , inflexed in bud; anthers typically 2-celled, introrse , basifixed , dehiscent by 1 or 2 apical pores or by short longitudinal slits (Astronia, Memecylon) ; connective often variously appendaged. Pistil and style 1; stigma minute, capitate or truncate . Ovary commonly inferior or semi-inferior, locules usually (3 or) 4 or 5(or 6) with numerous anatropous ovules , rarely 1-loculed and ovules ca. 9 (Memecylon) ; placentation axillary , parietal (Astronia and, outside China, Pternandra Jack ), or free central (Memecylon) . Fruit a dry or fleshy capsule or a berry, loculicidally dehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds (when 3-6-loculed) usually small, curved through half a circle (cochleate) or wedge-shaped (cuneate), in Memecylon seeds large and ovoid ; endosperm absent.

Between 156 and 166 genera (150-160 in Melastomataceae sensu stricto and six in Memecylaceae here considered part of Melastomataceae) and ca. 4500 species (ca. 4050 in Melastomataceae sensu stricto and 450 in Memecylaceae [Olisbeoideae if considered a subfamily of Melastomataceae]) : primarily in tropical and subtropical regions; 21 genera (five endemic) and 114 species (72 endemic) in China.

Chinese genera of economic value include Osbeckia (medicine) and Melastoma (wild fruit and ornamental flowers) .[1]

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -641 meters (0 to -2,103 feet).[2]

Ecology: The species occurs in cloud forest , mostly on riversides .[3]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : F.Almeda Publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 68(1): 206 (1981) 1981

Similar Species

Members of the genus Adelobotrys

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 36 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. acreana · A. adscendens · A. ayangannensis · A. barbata · A. boissieriana · A. ciliata · A. duidae · A. fruticosa · A. fuscencens · A. fuscescens · A. guianensis · A. hoyosii · A. intensa · A. intonsa · A. jefensis · A. klugii · A. laxiflora · A. lindeni · A. linearifolia · A. macrantha · A. macrophylla · A. marginata · A. monticola · A. multiflora · A. panamensis · A. permixta · A. praetexta · A. rachidotricha · A. rotundifolia · A. ruokolainenii · A. saxosa · A. scandens · A. spruceana · A. stenophylla · A. subsessilis · A. tessmannii

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Further Reading

• Mitre, M.E. 1997. Completed data collection forms for trees of Panama.
• Chen Cheih. 1984. Melastomataceae. In: Chen Cheih, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 135-293.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 15, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Mitré, M. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7148473
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15609881
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:896839-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 4236-2
• IUCN ID: 38406
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1025191

Footnotes

1. Jie Chen & Susanne S. Renner "Melastomataceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 360. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = -526.830 meters (-1,728.445 feet), Standard Deviation = 279.650 based on 6 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
3. Mitré, M. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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