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Adinandra griffithii

Overview

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Endangered
Threat status

Description

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Family Theaceae

Shrubs or trees , evergreen or rarely deciduous, usually bisexual , rarely dioecious (Eurya) or androdioecious (Ternstroemia) . Stipules absent. Leaves simple , alternate, petiolate or rarely sessile; leaf blade secondary veins pinnate, margin usually serrate or rarely entire. Flowers axillary or subterminal , solitary or sometimes to 3(-10 or more) in a cluster or raceme , pedicellate or subsessile . Bracteoles 2-8 or rarely more, persistent or caducous , sometimes undifferentiated from sepals. Sepals 5(or 6) or rarely more, persistent. Corolla white, red, or yellow; petals 5 or rarely more, basally connate or rarely distinct , adnate to androecium. Stamens numerous , in 1-6 whorls; outer filaments basally ± connate; anthers dorsifixed or basifixed , 2-loculed, laterally and longitudinally dehiscent . Gynoecium 3-5-carpellate. Carpels connate or rarely incompletely connate to nearly distinct. Ovary superior, rarely half inferior, 3-5-loculed, placentation axile or rarely nearly basal; ovules 2-5(to ca. 100) or more per locule; styles distinct to basally connate, rarely completely united . Fruit a loculicidal capsule or indehiscent and drupaceous or baccate , with 1 to many seeds per locule; pericarp woody, leathery, or fleshy ; columella persistent or ± degenerating. Seeds globose , semiglobose, compressed oblong , ovoid , or reniform , winged or wingless; testa bony, leathery, or sometimes with a fleshy red outer layer or sarcotesta (in Anneslea and Ternstroemia), smooth or honeycombed ; hilum umbilicate or linear ; endosperm present or absent; embryo large or small; cotyledons fleshy or thin.

About 19 genera and 600 species: tropical and subtropical Africa, tropical America, E, S, and SE Asia, SE North America, Pacific islands; 12 genera (two endemic) and 274 species (204 endemic) in China.

The greatest species diversity of Theaceae is in S China and adjacent SE Asia.

The two subfamilies of Theaceae used here are sometimes treated as separate families (Theaceae and Ternstroemiaceae) .

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Genus Adinandra

Shrubs or trees , evergreen . Leaves petiolate ; leaf blade margin entire or serrulate . Flowers bisexual , solitary or paired . Pedicel usually recurved, seldom erect ; bracteoles 2, inserted at apex of pedicel, alternate or opposite, persistent or caducous . Sepals 5, persistent, imbricate, unequal, thick, concave , basally slightly connate . Petals 5, imbricate, outside glabrous or sericeous , basally connate. Stamens 15-60, in 1-5 whorls; filaments connate or distinct , adnate to base of sepals, glabrous or with pubescence ; anthers basifixed , oblong , with filiform trichomes , connective projected into an apiculum . Ovary pubescent or glabrous, (2 or) 3-5-loculed, placentation axile ; ovules 20-100 per locule; style l, simple or apically 3-5-lobed. Fruit baccate , many-seeded, with a persistent style. Seeds brown, minute, foveolate to pitted , shiny; embryo inflexed ; endosperm abundant; cotyledons semiterete.

About 85 species: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, S Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; tropical Africa; 22 species (17 endemic) in China.[2]

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Dyer Publication : Fl. Brit . Ind. (J. D. Hooker). i. 282.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Adinandra

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 144 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. acuminata · A. acuta · A. acutifolia · A. angulata · A. angustata · A. anisobasis · A. annamensis · A. apoense · A. apoensis · A. auriformis · A. bancana · A. bicuspidata · A. bockiana · A. borneensis · A. bracteata · A. brassii · A. brefeldii · A. calosericea · A. caudata · A. caudatifolia · A. celebica · A. chinensis · A. chingii · A. clemensiae · A. coarctata · A. collina · A. colombonensis · A. cordata · A. cordifolia · A. coriacea · A. corneriana · A. crassifolia · A. creaghii · A. crenulata · A. cyrtopoda · A. dasyantha · A. donnaiensis · A. drakeana · A. dubia · A. dumosa · A. elegans · A. elliptica · A. endertii · A. epunctata · A. excelsa · A. eymae · A. filipes · A. forbesii · A. formosana · A. gallatlyi · A. glabra · A. glischroloma · A. grandifolia · A. grandis · A. greenwayi · A. griffithii · A. hainanensis · A. hemsleyi · A. hirta · A. howii · A. hullettii · A. hypochlora · A. impressa · A. inaequalis · A. incornuta · A. integerrima · A. intermedia · A. jackiana · A. japonica · A. javanica · A. jubata · A. kjellbergii · A. kwangsiensis · A. kweichovensis · A. lamponga · A. lancipetala · A. laotica · A. laronensis · A. lasiopetala · A. lasiostyla · A. latifolia · A. leiopetala · A. lenticellata · A. leytensis · A. lienii · A. loerzingiana · A. loheri · A. lutescens · A. luzonica · A. macgregorii · A. macrantha · A. macrosepala · A. maculosa · A. magniflora · A. mannii · A. maquilingensis · A. masambensis · A. megaphylla · A. meratusensis · A. merrillii

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Footnotes

  1. Tianlu Min & Bruce Bartholomew "Theaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 364, 365, 366. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. "Adinandra". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 366, 367, 430, 435,478. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 2009-07-03