Bischofia javanica

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Click on the language to view common names.

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Evergreen forests , open valley woodlands, widely planted on stream banks, cultivated in gardens and along avenues; below 800 m (Ref. 52322).

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -4,530 meters (0 to -14,862 feet).[1]

Biome: Marine .

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Andrachne trifoliata Roxburgh • B. leptopoda Müller Argoviensis • B. oblongifolia Decaisne; B. Roeperiana Decaisne • B. toui Decaisne; B. trifoliata (Roxburgh) Hooker • Bischofia cumingiana Decaisne • Microelus roeperianus (Decaisne) Wight & Arnott • Stylodiscus trifoliatus (Roxburgh) Bennett.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

Similar Species

Members of the genus Bischofia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

B. javanica (Bischofia)

More Info

• Search for Pictures: images.google.com
• Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
• Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
• Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books

Further Reading

• A bibliographic enumeration of Bornean plants, by E. D. Merrill. Singapore, Printed by Fraser & Neave, ltd., 1921 url p. 334, p. 334.
• A dictionary of the plant names of the Philippine Islands / by Elmer D. Merrill. Manila: Bureau of Public Print., 1903. url p. 113, p. 114, p. 56, p. 60, p. 99.
• A flora of Manila / Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1912, 1974 printing. url .
• A flora of Manila, by E. D. Merrill. Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1912. url p. 288.
• A forest flora of Chota Nagpur including Gangpur and the Santal-Parganahs. A description of all the indigenous trees, shrubs and climbers, the principal economic herbs, and the most commonly cultivated trees and shrubs (with introduction and glossary) by H. H. Haines. Dehra Dun, India, Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, 1910. url p. 227.
• A manual of Indian timbers; an account of the growth, distribution, and uses of the trees and shrubs of India and Ceylon with descriptions of their wood-structure, by J. S. Gamble... London: S. Low, Marston & co. ltd., 1902. url p. 589, p. 607.
• A manual of the timbers of the world: their characteristics and uses: to which is appended an account by S. Fitzgerald of the artificial seasoning of timber. London: Macmillan, 1920. url , , , .
• An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 418.
• Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. 21 1965 Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum, Harvard University, 1932- url p. 100.
• Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url , p. 334, p. 418.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1911 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 461.
• Bulletin. Manila, Bureau of printing, 1903- url p. 111, p. 14, p. 249, p. 25, p. 254, p. 273, p. 48, p. 49, p. 87, p. 93.
• Catalogue of the photographic collection at the Forest research institute, Dehra Dun, India. (Up to date 1st November 1911). Calcutta, Supt. govt. printing, India, 1912. url .
• Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 25, p. 26, p. 408, p. 426, p. 50, p. 55, p. 90, p. 91, p. 95, p. 97.
• Chinese economic trees, [Shanghai]Printed by the Commercial Press, Ltd.[1921] url , , , , , , p. 212, p. 23.
• Conservation and sustainable management of trees, report of the third regional workshop, held at Army Hotel, Hanoi, Viet Nam, 18-21 August, 1997 WCMC url p. 118.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 225, p. 423, p. 443, p. 457.
• Contributions to the flora of Siam [Aberdeen]Printed for the University1912- url p. 187.
• Contributions to the flora of Siam. .. / by William Grant Craib. .. [Aberdeen]: Printed for the University of Aberdeen, 1912- url p. 187.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url p. 364.
• Descriptive catalogue of the Formosan fungi / by Kaneyoshi Sawoda. Taihoku, Formosa: Agricultural Experiment Station, 1919- url p. 212, p. 249.
• Directory of the proposed Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve: draft WCMC url .
• Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url , p. 30, p. 604, p. 987.
• Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 494, p. 495.
• Flora of Bermuda. .. by Nathaniel Lord Britton. .. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1918. url p. 220.
• Flora of Bermuda... by Nathaniel Lord Britton... New York, Scribner, 1918. url p. 220, p. 564.
• Flora of the upper Gangetic plain, and of the adjacent Siwalik and sub-Himalayan tracts, by J. F. Duthie. Calcutta, Superintendent of Government Printing, 1903-29. url p. 84.
• Great Basin naturalist memoirs. 1992 [Provo, Utah]Brigham Young University, 1976-1992. url p. 1121.
• IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania IUCN url p. 404, p. 436.
• Indian trees: an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian empire / London: A. Constable, 1906. url p. 558, p. 740.
• Introduction to the systematy of Indian trees. LondonOxford University Press1921 url p. 37.
• List of trees, shrubs, and principal climbers, etc., recorded from Burma: with vernacular names / by J.H. Lace. Rangoon, Burma: Supt., Govt. Print., 1922. url p. 290.
• Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze Valley, China. Corvallis, Oregon State College[1958] url p. 210, p. 583.
• Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. Honolulu: [Bishop Museum Press], 1899-1949. url , , , .
• Nature Reserves of the Himalaya and the Mountains of Central Asia IUCN url p. 216, p. 462.
• New or noteworthy Philippine plants. .. / by Elmer D. Merrill. Manila: Bureau of Public Printing, 1904-1922. url p. 370.
• Ornamental gardening in Florida, by Charles Torrey Simpson; a treatise on the decorative plants adapted to Florida and their cultivation, with suggestions for the ornamentation of Florida homes and grounds. Little River, Fla., The author, 1916. url p. 130, p. 138, p. 188, p. 188.
• Pamphlets on forestry in the Philippine Islands. [1900?- url p. 3.
• Pamphlets on silviculture. [1899- url p. 594.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 220, p. 384.
• Plantae Wilsonianae; an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold arboretum of Harvard university during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910, by E. H. Wilson, ed. by Charles Sprague Sargent. Cambridge, University Press, 1913-17. url p. 275, p. 455, p. 512, p. 568, p. 577, p. 632.
• Pre-project study on the conservation status of tropical timbers in trade. Final report to International Tropical Timber Organization. Vol 1 ITTO url p. 195.
• Sargent, C. S. Plantae Wilsonianae: an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold arboretum of Harvard university during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910 /by E. H. Wilson, ed. by Charles Sprague Sargent. 3 1917 Cambridge: The University press, 1913-17. url p. 275, p. 455, p. 512, p. 521, p. 568, p. 577, p. 589, p. 632.
• The Asa Gray bulletin. 1 1952 Ann Arbor, Mich. url , p. 69.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 249, p. 64.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url , p. 422.
• The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url , p. 4.
• The Macrolepidoptera of the world; a systematic description of the hitherto known Macrolepidoptera, ed. in collaboration with well-known specialists. Stuttgart: Seitz'schen (Kernen), 1906- url p. 13.
• The Philippine journal of science. Manila: Bureau of Science url p. 244, p. 335, p. 356, p. 423, p. 483, p. 555, p. 78.
• The Queensland flora: Queensland, Printed by H. J. Diddams & co., 1899-1902. url .
• The flora of British India /By J. D. Hooker assisted by various botanists. Published under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council. London: L. Reeve, 1875-97. url p. 345, p. 345.
• The flora of the presidency of Bombay / By Theodore Cooke. London: Taylor and Francis, 1903-08. url p. 571.
• Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd series: Botany 6 1901-1905 London. url p. 492.
• Vernacular list of trees, shrubs, and woody climbers in the Madras Presidency. Madras, Printed by the Superintendant, Government Press, 1915. url p. 1023, p. 403, p. 404, p. 735, p. 736, p. 845, p. 846, p. 974, p. 998.
• [Publications] - Bureau of Government Laboratories. Manila, Bureau of Public Printing, 1903-1906. url p. 113, p. 114.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 14, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
• National Institute of Genetics, ROIS, Herbarium Specimens of Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo Pref., Japan
• Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility, Magnoliophyta
• Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility, Taiwan Biodiversity Data for GBIF
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2651897
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-22243
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15479924
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:51914-3
• GRIN Nomen Number: 7243
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 28239
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 51914-3
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDEUP0A010
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: BIJA
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 24769

Footnotes

1. Mean = -387.420 meters (-1,271.063 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,208.060 based on 280 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

©2004-2012 David Stang. All rights reserved.