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Banara regia

Overview

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Endangered
Threat status

Description

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Family Flacourtiaceae

Trees or shrubs , hermaphroditic , monoecious, dioecious, or polygamous, evergreen or deciduous; trunk , branches, and branchlets sometimes spiny ; hairs simple , rarely T-shaped or stellate . Leaves simple, usually alternate, rarely opposite or verticillate , sometimes crowded at apices of branches; stipules usually small and caducous , sometimes larger, leaflike and persistent , rarely absent; petiole generally present, sometimes with apex 2-glandular and/or with additional glands along petiole length; leaf blade usually pinnate-veined, sometimes 3-5-veined from base or palmate-veined, with or without pellucid dots or lines , sometimes with a pair of glands at junction of blade and petiole, margin entire or toothed , teeth glandular or not. Inflorescences axillary , terminal , or cauliflorous , of various forms: racemose, spicate , cymose , corymbose , or paniculate , sometimes flowers fasciculate, or solitary; pedicels often articulate ; bracts and bracteoles usually small to minute. Flowers radially symmetric , bisexual or unisexual , hypogynous, perigynous, or epigynous ; perianth cyclic , rarely spiral , in unisexual flowers remnants of opposite sex present or absent. Sepals imbricate or valvate , rarely spathaceous , mostly (2 or) 3-6, rarely more, usually free or connate at base only, sometimes partly united into a tube , caducous or persistent, rarely accrescent . Petals 3-8, rarely more, often isomerous and alternating with sepals, free, imbricate or valvate, rarely contorted, similar to sepals or not, sometimes with a fleshy adaxial basal scale , or petals absent. Disk present, entire, lobed , or comprised of free or connate disk glands, these extrastaminal , interstaminal, or intrastaminal (bisexual or staminate flowers ), or extragynoecial (pistillate flowers), or disk absent. Stamens 1 to many (ca. 100), 1- or many seriate , sometimes in epipetalous bundles, or on margin of cupular disk or rim of calyx tube; filaments free, rarely united into a column; anthers 2-thecate, usually longitudinally dehiscent , rarely opening by terminal pores, connective sometimes shortly projected or glandular. Ovary superior or semi-inferior, 1-loculed, with 2-9 parietal placentas, rarely incompletely 2-9(or more) -celled by placentas protruding deeply into locule; ovules 2 or more on each placenta, orthotropous , anatropous , or hemi-anatropous; styles isomerous with placentas, free or partly to completely united, rarely absent, stigmas small or large, capitate to flattened and branched. Fruit capsular or baccate , rarely a drupe, pericarp mostly smooth , sometimes winged or bristly . Seeds 1 to many, with or without a fleshy sometimes brightly colored sarcotesta and/or aril, sometimes with long hairs, or broadly winged; endosperm usually copious and fleshy; embryo straight or curved ; cotyledons usually broad, often cordate.

About 87 genera and ca. 900 species: mostly in tropical and subtropical regions, some extending into the temperate zone; 12 genera (one endemic) and 39 species (nine endemic) in China; four additional species (all endemic) are poorly known (see Homalium) .[1]

Habitat

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Sandwith Publication : Bull . Misc. Inform. Kew 1930: 154 1930

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Banara

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 71 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

B. acunae · B. amazonica · B. arguta · B. axilliflora · B. bernardinensis · B. boliviana · B. brasiliensis · B. brevifolia · B. brittonii · B. caymanensis · B. cordifolia · B. costaricensis · B. dioica · B. domingensis · B. ekmaniana · B. excisa · B. exechandra · B. fagifolia · B. flavovirens · B. glaberrima · B. glabrata · B. glandulosa · B. glauca · B. grandiflora · B. guianensis · B. guianensis var. isadena · B. guianensis var. martiana · B. guianensis var. spruceana · B. hassleri · B. hotteana · B. ibaguensis · B. incana · B. kuhlmannii · B. larensis · B. laxiflora · B. leptophylla · B. leucothyrsa · B. macrophylla · B. magnifolia · B. mexicana · B. minutiflora · B. mollis · B. nitida · B. orinocensis · B. parviflora · B. paucinervosa · B. portoricensis (Puerto Rico Palo De Ramon) · B. prehernandiensis · B. pubescens · B. pyramidata · B. quinquenervis · B. racemosa · B. regia · B. reticulata · B. riparia · B. riscoi · B. roxburghii · B. sacupanensis · B. saxicola · B. selleana · B. serrata · B. splendens · B. tessmannii · B. tomentosa · B. trinitatis · B. tulasnei · B. ulmifolia · B. umbraticola · B. vanderbiltii (Vanderbilt's Palo De Ramon) · B. vellozii · B. wilsonii

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 2007:

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Footnotes

  1. Qiner Yang & Sue Zmarzty "Flacourtiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 112, 138. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 2009-07-03