Fagara externa

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• Notes

Overview

Vulnerable

Description

Family Rutaceae

The Rutaceae are herbs, shrubs , and trees with glandular punctate , commonly strongly smelling herbage comprising about 150 genera and 1,500 species that are further characterized by the common occurrence of spines and winged petioles . The leaves are alternate or opposite, simple or palmately or pinnately compound , or sometimes heathlike or reduced to spines; stipules are absent. The flowers are often sweet-scented, nearly always bisexual , and are actinomorphic or sometimes zygomorphic. The calyx consists of 3-5 distinct or basally connate sepals and the corolla consists of 3-5 distinct or sometimes connate petals or rarely the petals are lacking. The androecium consists of distinct or sometimes connate stamens that are commonly obdiplostemonous , that is in two whorls with the outer whorl opposite the petals. However, sometimes there may be (1)3-4 whorls or rarely up to 60 stamens. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of commonly 2-5 or more, often incompletely connate carpels that may be united only basally or apically, either one or an equal number of styles, and a superior ovary with usually 2-5 or more locules, each bearing 1-several axile ovules. Generally, an intrastaminal nectary disk is situated between the stamens and the ovary. The fruit is variable. -- Gerald Carr.

Habitat

Ecology: A characteristic species of lower montane forest .[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Skottsb. Publication : Nat. Hist. Juan Fernandez & EasterIsland ii. 143 (1922)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Fagara

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 424 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

F. acanthopodium · F. acreana · F. aculeata · F. aculeatissima · F. acuminata · F. acunae · F. acunai · F. acutifolia · F. adolfi-friederici · F. affinis · F. afzelii · F. ailanthoides · F. ailanthoides var. inermis · F. alata · F. alata var. beecheyana · F. alata var. tomentosa · F. albiflora · F. altissima · F. amaniensis · F. amapaense · F. amapaensis · F. amapensis · F. amoyensis · F. anadenia · F. angolensis · F. anisata · F. annobonensis · F. apiculata · F. arborescens · F. arenaria · F. ariscorina · F. armata · F. articulata · F. astrigera · F. atchoum · F. attiensis · F. australis · F. avicennae · F. azuensis · F. bachmannii · F. backeri · F. becquetii · F. beniensis · F. bifoliolata · F. bijuga · F. biondii · F. bluettiana · F. bombacifolia · F. boninshimae · F. bouetensis · F. brachyacantha · F. brachyacanthum · F. braunii · F. brieyi · F. brisasana · F. budrunga · F. buesgenii · F. bukobensis · F. bungei · F. cabrae · F. camphorata · F. canalensis · F. capensis · F. caribaea · F. caroliniana · F. caudata · F. chaffanjoni · F. chaffanjonii · F. chalybea · F. chevalieri · F. chiloperone · F. chinensis · F. ciliata · F. cinerea · F. claessensi · F. claessensii · F. clava-herculis · F. clava-herculis var. fruticosa · F. coco · F. coco var. formosana · F. comosa · F. compacta · F. consolatae · F. cordobensis · F. coriacea · F. cornpacta · F. corumbensis · F. costaricensis · F. crassifolia · F. cubensis · F. cuiabensis · F. cuiabensis f. inermis · F. cuiabensis var. axillaris · F. cujabensis · F. culantrillo · F. culantrillo var. continentalis · F. culantrillo var. insularis · F. culantrilo · F. curbeloi · F. cuspidata

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Further Reading

• Ricci, M. 1991. Letter to Hugh Synge concerning conservation status of plants of the Juan Fernandez Islands. Includes annotations to 12 Aug 1991 TPU printout for the Juan Fernandez Islands.
• Ricci, Marcia. 1990. Programa de conservación y recuperación de plantas amenazadas de Juan Fernandez. (Including annotations by H. Synge).
• WWF and IUCN. 1994. Centres of plant diversity. A guide and strategy for their conservation. IUCN Publications Unit, Cambridge, UK.

Notes

Contributors

• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Fagara externa. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7140375
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15828502
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:773310-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 103000-2
• IUCN ID: 30465
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1019329

Footnotes

1. 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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