Elaeocarpus inopinatus

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Overview

Vulnerable

Description

Family Elaeocarpaceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen or semi-evergreen . Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, stipulate or not, petiolate , simple , pinnately veined. Inflorescence axillary or terminal , racemose, corymbose , paniculate , or sometimes fascicled or solitary flowers. Flowers bisexual or polygamous, 4- or 5-merous, actinomorphic , with or without bracts. Sepals 4 or 5, basally connate or free , usually valvate . Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, valvate or imbricate, margin laciniate or rarely entire. Stamens 8 to numerous ; filaments free and borne on disks; anthers 2-celled, dehiscent by apical or longitudinal slits, awned or tipped with hairs at apices. Disk circular or glandularly lobed . Ovary superior, 2- to several loculed; placentation axile ; ovules 2 to several per locule; style connate or free. Fruit a drupe or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo flat.

About 12 genera and ca. 550 species: primarily in tropical to subtropical regions of both hemispheres, excluding Africa; two genera and 53 species (21 endemic) in China.[1]

Genus Elaeocarpus

Trees or rarely shrubs . Leaves alternate or spirally arranged ; stipules linear or rarely leaflike, caducous , rarely persistent ; petiole usually long and swollen at both ends; leaf blade margin serrate or entire, pinnately veined. Inflorescence axillary , racemose. Flowers bisexual , 4- or 5-merous. Sepals 4 or 5, valvate , abaxially usually pubescent . Petals 4 or 5, white, free , margin laciniate, rarely entire or lobed . Stamens 8 to numerous ; filaments short; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing from apical slits, with awn or hairs at tip . Disk usually glandularly 5-10-lobed, rarely circular. Ovary superior, 2-5(-7) -loculed; ovules 2-12 per locule; style linear or subulate . Fruit a drupe, 1(or 5) -loculed; endocarp hard, bony, surface usually lacunose . Seeds usually 1 per locule, with fleshy endosperm; cotyledons thin; embryo straight or curved .

About 360 species: primarily in the Old World tropics; 39 species (14 endemic) in China.[2]

Habitat

Ecology: Scrubby forest .[3]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : M .J.E.Coode Publication : Kew Bull . 49(2): 245 (1994) 1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Elaeocarpus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 441 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

E. acmocarpus · E. acmosepalus · E. acrantherus · E. acronodia · E. acuminatus · E. acutifidus · E. adenopus · E. aemulus · E. affinis · E. alaternoides · E. alatus · E. albiflorus · E. alfiblorus · E. alnifolius · E. alpestris · E. altigenus · E. altisectus · E. amboinensis · E. amoenus · E. ampliflorus · E. amplifolius · E. angustifolia · E. angustifolius (Lily of the Valley Tree) · E. angustipes · E. apiculatus · E. apoensis · E. archboldianus · E. arfakensis · E. argenteus · E. aristatus · E. arnhemicus · E. arthropus · E. atrescens · E. atro-punctatus · E. auricomus · E. austro-sinicus · E. austro-yunnanensis · E. austroyunnanensis · E. azaleifolius · E. bachmaensis · E. baclayanensis · E. badius · E. baeuerlenii · E. bakaianus · E. balansae · E. balgooyi · E. bancroftii · E. baramii · E. barbulatus · E. batudulangii · E. batui · E. beccarii · E. beccarii beccarii · E. bellus · E. bidupensis · E. bifida · E. bifidus · E. biflorus · E. bilobatus · E. bilongvinas · E. blascoi · E. blepharoceras · E. bojeri · E. bontocensis · E. boreali-yunnanensis · E. boridiensis · E. braceanus · E. brachyandrus · E. brachyphyllus · E. brachypodus · E. brachystachyus · E. bracteatus · E. brandehorstii · E. branderhorsti · E. brevipes · E. breviracemosus · E. brigittae · E. brunneotomentosus · E. brunnescens · E. buderi · E. bullatus · E. burebidensis · E. calomala · E. calomala var. villosiusculus · E. candollei · E. capuronii · E. carolinae · E. carolinensis (Elaeocarpus) · E. cassinoides · E. castanaefolius · E. castaneifolius · E. ceylanicus · E. chelonimorphus · E. chinensis · E. chionanthus · E. chrysophyllus · E. clemensiae · E. clementis · E. clementis var. borneensis · E. colnettianus

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Further Reading

• Coode, M.J.E. and Weibel, R. 1994. Elaeocarpus for Flora Malesiana - notes, new taxa and combinations in sect. Elaeocarpus. Kew Bulletin 49(2): 235-259.
• Chang Hung-ta. 1989. Elaeocarpaceae. In: Chang Hung-ta, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(1): 1-46.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 1, 2006.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7146755
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:977375-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 977375-1
• IUCN ID: 36512
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1023912

Footnotes

1. Ya Tang & Chamlong Phengklai "Elaeocarpaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 223. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Elaeocarpus". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 223. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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