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Daphnopsis grandis

Overview

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Endangered
Threat status

Description

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Family Thymelaeaceae

Shrubs or small trees , rarely herbs, evergreen or deciduous. Bark tough and fibrous . Leaves opposite or alternate, rarely some ternate , estipulate; blade simple , entire, pinnately veined, articulate at base . Plants mostly bisexual , sometimes dioecious. Inflorescences terminal or subterminal , less often axillary , sometimes on brachyblasts , sessile or pedunculate , basically racemose, sometimes capitate, spicate , umbelliform, or fascicled. Flowers usually actinomorphic , bisexual or unisexual (plants then mostly dioecious), bracteate (sometimes bracts forming an involucre) or ebracteate , sessile or pedicellate . Calyx tubular , campanulate , or infundibuliform , usually corollalike, 4- or 5(or 6) -merous, mostly caducous , sometimes circumscissile, or persistent ; lobes imbricate. Petals absent or represented by 4-12 scales , inserted at or near throat of calyx tube (Aquilaria) . Stamens 2 to many, usually as many as calyx lobes and opposite them or twice as many. Hypognous disk usually present at base of ovary, scalelike, annular or cup-shaped, sometimes absent. Ovary superior, 1- or 2-loculed, sessile or shortly stipitate ; ovules solitary in each locule, pendulous, anatropous ; style filiform , caducous, sometimes very short or obscure , terminal or eccentric ; stigma capitate, globose , subglobose, subclavate, or pyramidal , sometimes papilose. Fruit mostly indehiscent, dry or fleshy , sometimes a loculicidal capsule (Aquilaria) . Seeds with or without endosperm, embryo straight.

About 48 genera and ca. 650 species: widely distributed in both hemispheres; nine genera and 115 species (89 endemic) in China.

The phloem contains very strong fibers, which make the bark of many species very suitable for the manufacture of high-quality paper such as that used for bank notes . The stems are extremely supple and difficult to break and are used as a substitute for string. Most species are poisonous and some are important medicinally.[1]

Habitat

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

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Nevling & Barringer Publication : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75: 728 1988

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Daphnopsis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 128 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

D. aemygdioi · D. alainii · D. alpestris · D. americana (Burn Nose) · D. americana caribaea (Caribbean Burn Nose) · D. americana cumingii · D. americana ecuadorensis · D. americana salicifolia · D. americana subsp. caribaea (Caribbean Burn Nose) · D. americana tinifolia · D. angustifolia · D. anomala · D. beta · D. bissei · D. bogotensis · D. boliviana · D. bonplandiana · D. bonplandii · D. bonplandii var. mollis · D. brasiliensis · D. brevifolia · D. calcicola · D. caracasana · D. caribaea · D. caribaea var. ecuadorensis · D. caribaea var. peruviensis · D. cestrifolia · D. coriacea · D. correae · D. costaricensis · D. crassifolia · D. crassifolia var. eggersii · D. crispotomentosa · D. cubensis · D. cuneata · D. cuneata maestrensis · D. cuneata uniflora · D. decidua · D. dioica · D. dircoides · D. ekmanii · D. emarginata · D. equatorialis · D. equatorialsis · D. ericiflora · D. espinosa · D. espinosae · D. fasciculata · D. ficina · D. filipedunculata · D. flavida · D. folsomii · D. gemmiflora · D. grandis · D. granitica · D. guacacoa · D. guaiquinimae · D. guiaquinimae · D. hammelii · D. hammellii · D. hellerana · D. helleriana (Heller's Cieneguillo) · D. hispaniolica · D. hispaniolicus · D. humboldtii · D. humboldtii var. boissieriana · D. incerata · D. incerta · D. lagunae · D. leguizamonis · D. liebmannii · D. lindeni · D. lindenii · D. longifolia · D. longipedunculata · D. longiracemosa · D. loranthifolia · D. macrocarpa · D. macrophylla · D. malacophylla · D. martii · D. martii var. congregata · D. megacarpa · D. mello-barretoi · D. mexiae · D. mollis · D. monocephala · D. morii · D. nevlingiana · D. nevlingii · D. oblongifolia · D. occidentalis · D. occulta · D. pavoni · D. pavonii · D. perplexa · D. peruviensis · D. philippiana (Emajagua De Sierra) · D. phillippiana · D. pseudosalix

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Data Sources

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Footnotes

  1. Yinzheng Wang, Michael G. Gilbert, Brian F. Mathew, Christopher Brickell & Lorin I. Nevling "Thymelaeaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 213. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 2009-07-03