Calyptranthes arenicola

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Overview

Critically Endangered

Description

Family Myrtaceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen , usually with essential oils-containing cavities in foliage , branchlets , and flowers. Stipules absent or small and caducous . Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, occasionally ternate or pseudo-whorled; leaf blade with secondary veins pinnate or basal, often with intramarginal veins near margin , margin usually entire. Inflorescences axillary or terminal , cymose but variously arranged, 1- to many-flowered. Flowers bisexual , sometimes polygamous, actinomorphic . Hypanthium usually adnate to ovary and prolonged above it. Calyx lobes (3 or) 4 or 5 or more, distinct or connate into a calyptra. Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, distinct or connate into a calyptra, sometimes coherent and pseudocalyptrate. Stamens usually numerous , in 1 to several whorls; filaments distinct or connate into 5 bundles opposite petals; anthers 2-celled, dorsifixed or basifixed , dehiscing longitudinally or rarely terminally; connectives usually terminating in 1 or more apical glands . Ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or very rarely superior, carpels 2 to more, locules 1 to many, pseudoseptum sometimes present, placentation usually axile but occasionally parietal ; ovules 1 to several per locule. Style single; stigma single. Fruit a capsule, berry, drupaceous berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds without endosperm or endosperm sparse and thin; testa cartilaginous or thinly membranous, sometimes absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 130 genera and 4500-5000 species: Mediterranean region, sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, tropical and temperate Asia, Australia, Pacific islands, tropical and South America; 10 genera (five introduced ) and 121 species (50 endemic, 32 introduced treated here) in China.

Many Myrtaceae are cultivated garden ornamentals , street trees, or plantation trees. Some members of tribe Syzygieae are grown as fruit crops. In addition to the cultivated members of the family treated here, some others grown in China include Acca sellowiana (O. Berg ) Burrett (Feijoa sellowiana (O. Berg) O. Berg), Myrtus communis Linnaeus, and Syncarpia glomulifera (Smith) Niedenzu.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Urb. Publication : Symb. Antill. (Urban) 9: 478 1928

Similar Species

Members of the genus Calyptranthes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 350 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. acevedoi (Puerto Rico Mountainbay) · C. acunae · C. acutissima · C. affinis · C. aguilarii · C. albicans · C. amarulenta · C. amoena · C. amshoffae · C. anacletoi · C. anceps · C. angustifolia · C. apicata · C. apoda · C. arborea · C. arenicola · C. aromatica · C. axillaris · C. banilejoana · C. baracoensis · C. barkeri · C. bartlettii · C. belizensis · C. bergii · C. bialata · C. bimarginata · C. bipennis · C. blanchetiana · C. boldinghii · C. bracteata · C. bracteosa · C. brasiliensis · C. brevispicata · C. bullata · C. calderonii · C. calophylla · C. calyptrata · C. canaliculata · C. canapuensis · C. capitata · C. capitellata · C. cardiophylla · C. caroli · C. caryophyllata · C. caryophyllifolia · C. caudata · C. cephalantha · C. chiapensis · C. chrysophylloides · C. chrysopylloides · C. chytraculia · C. chytraculia var. americana · C. chytraculia var. pauciflora · C. chytraculia var. zuzygium · C. clarendonensis · C. clarensis · C. clementis · C. clusiaefolia · C. clusiifolia · C. collina · C. compressa · C. conccina · C. concinna · C. contrerasii · C. cordata · C. cordifolia · C. corymbosa · C. costaricensis · C. costata · C. creba · C. crebra · C. cristalensis · C. cubensis · C. cumini · C. cuminodora · C. cuneata · C. cuneifolia · C. cuprea · C. cuspidata · C. danca · C. dardanoi · C. decandra · C. densa · C. densiflora · C. densifolia · C. depressa · C. dichotoma · C. discolor · C. dryadica · C. dumetorum · C. dusenii · C. ekmanii · C. elegans · C. elongata · C. enneantha · C. eriocephala · C. eriopoda · C. ermitensis · C. estremenae (Las Cuevas Mountainbay) · C. eugenioides

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Further Reading

• Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1997. A listing of threatened Cuban trees prepared for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Trees project.
• Borhidi, A. 1992. Letter to Hugh Synge concerning conservation status of Cuban plants. Includes annotations to 27 Aug 1991 TPU printout for Cuba.
• Borhidi, A. and Muñiz, O. 1983. Catálogo de Plantas Cubanas Amenazadas o Extinguidas. Acad. Ciencias de Cuba, La Habana.
• Borhidi, A. and Muñiz, O. 1983. Catálogo de Plantas Cubanas Amenazadas o Extinguidas. Acad. Ciencias de Cuba, La Habana.
• Chang Hung-ta & Miau Ru-hwai. 1984. Myrtaceae. In: Chen Chieh, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 28-135.

Notes

Contributors

• Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. Calyptranthes arenicola. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7141780
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15640132
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:591544-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 591544-1
• IUCN ID: 31652
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1020211

Footnotes

1. Jie Chen & Lyn A. Craven "Myrtaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 321. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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