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Description
Family Myrsinaceae
Trees
, shrubs
, climbers
[or rarely herbs]. Leaves simple
, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled
, without stipules, often glandular
. Inflorescences terminal
, axillary
, or at apices of lateral
branches, racemose (often paniculate
), corymbose
, cymose
, umbellate
, or fascicled on scaly
spur branches in leaf axils
. Flowers bisexual
or polygamous, rarely unisexual
and plants
polygamodioecious or dioecious, 4- or 5(or 6) -merous, actinomorphic
. Sepals basally connate
or free
, persistent
, usually glandular. Petals basally connate or rarely free, usually glandular. Stamens as many as and opposite to petals, usually adnate
to base
or throat
of corolla tube
, sometimes free, rarely united
into a tube; anthers
2-celled, dorsifixed
, dehiscing longitudinally or by apical slits or pores
, rarely transversely septate
; filaments
present or absent. Ovary superior, rarely inferior to half-inferior, 1-celled; placentation free-central
, sometimes basal; ovules 1 to several in 11 to many rows
, usually embedded
in placenta, anatropous
or semicampylotropous. Style 1; stigma simple or lobed
. Fruit drupes with fleshy
exocarp
or capsules. Seeds 1 to many; endosperm fleshy or horny
; embryo x = 10-13, 23.
About 42 genera and more than 2,200 species: primarily in tropical
and subtropical
or warm temperate regions
of both hemispheres; five genera and 120 species (51 endemic) in China.
Chinese genera of economic value include Ardisia (medicine, oil
, edible, wild vegetables), Maesa (edible, tea, dye), Aegiceras (tannin, fine fuel), Embelia (vermifuge, edible), Myrsine (medicine, fine wood
, tannin, fuel) .[1]
Habitat
Ecology: An understorey shrub , treelet or tree found in high Andean forest to humid paramo (2,000–3,500 m ). Possibly persists or thrives in disturbed forests.[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Primulanae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1996
- Order:
Myrsinales
()
- Bromhead, 1838
- Family:
Myrsinaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1810
- Myrsine Family
- Genus:
Geissanthus
()
- Specific epithet:
vanderwerffii
- Pipoly
- Botanical name: - Geissanthus vanderwerffii Pipoly
- Specific epithet:
vanderwerffii
- Pipoly
- Genus:
Geissanthus
(
- Family:
Myrsinaceae
(
- Order:
Myrsinales
(
- Superorder:
Primulanae
(
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Pipoly Publication : in Sida, 17(2): 460 (1996) 1996
Similar Species
Members of the genus Geissanthus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
G. abditus · G. ambiguus · G. andinus · G. angustiflorus · G. argutus · G. bangii · G. betancurii · G. bogotensis · G. boliviana · G. callejasii · G. cestrifolius · G. challuayacus · G. cogolloi · G. dentatus · G. durifolius · G. ecuadorensis · G. fallenae · G. floribundus · G. fragrans · G. francoae · G. goudotianus · G. karlii · G. lepidotus · G. longistamineus · G. longistylus · G. obtusus · G. occidentalis · G. perpuncticulosus · G. peruvianus · G. pichinchae · G. pinchinchana · G. quindiensis · G. serrulatus · G. sessiliflorus · G. sodiroanus · G. spectabilis · G. vanderwerffii
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Further Reading
- Oldfield, S., Lusty, C. and MacKinven, A. (compilers) 1998. The World List of Threatened Trees. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.
- Pipoly III, J.J. 1996. New species of Ardisia (Myrsinaceae) from Ecuador and Peru. Sida 17(2): 445-458.
- Chen Chieh. 1979. Myrsinaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 58: 1-147.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 24, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
- Santiana, J. & Pitman, N. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 24, 2007:
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5986986
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15636759
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:993916-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 307085-2
- IUCN ID: 37331
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1024412
Footnotes
- Jie Chen & John J. Pipoly, III "Myrsinaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Santiana, J. & Pitman, N. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
