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Description
Family Loganiaceae
Trees
, shrubs
, woody climbers
, or herbs, sometimes epiphytic, sometimes with axillary
spines or tendrils
. Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, rarely verticillate
, fasciculate, or in a whorl; stipules usually present, often reduced to lines
connecting petiole
bases
, sometimes reduced to petiolar
ocrea or a connate
leaf-sheath; leaf blade
usually entire, pinnately veined or 3--7-veined from base. Flowers in cymes, these often grouped into thyrses
; cymes sometimes umbel-like, scorpioid or reduced to a single flower; bracts usually small. Flowers usually bisexual
. Calyx 4- or 5-lobed; lobes
free
or connate, mostly persistent
, imbricate or valvate
. Corolla sympetalous
; lobes 4 or 5(--16), valvate, imbricate or contorted in bud. Stamens inserted
on corolla, included
to exserted, equal in number to corolla lobes and alternating with them or sometimes fewer; filaments
free, much shorter to much longer
than anthers
; anthers basifixed
, 2--4-locular, dehiscing introrsely or extrorsely by longitudinal
slits, base slightly to deeply parted
. Disc ring-shaped or not. Ovary superior or rarely semi-inferior, (1- or) 2(--4) -locular, placentation axillary or parietal
; ovules 1 to many per locule. Style simple
, terminal
, persistent or deciduous; stigma usually capitate, entire or shortly 2--4-cleft. Fruit a capsule, berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds sometimes winged
; endosperm fleshy
or horny
; embryo minute, straight; cotyledons small.
Some 29 genera and about 500 species: mainly in tropical
and subtropical
regions of the world, absent from Europe; eight genera and 45 species (ten endemic) in China.[1]
Habitat
Ecology: A dense forest species.[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:
Lamiidae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder:
Gentiananae
()
- Thorne Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Gentianales
()
- Lindley, 1833
- Family:
Loganiaceae
()
- R. Brown Ex C. Martius, 1827
- Butterfly-Bush Family
- Genus:
Neuburgia
()
- Specific epithet:
macroloba
- (A.C.Sm.) A.C.Sm.
- Botanical name: - Neuburgia macroloba (A.C.Sm.) A.C.Sm.
- Specific epithet:
macroloba
- (A.C.Sm.) A.C.Sm.
- Genus:
Neuburgia
(
- Family:
Loganiaceae
(
- Order:
Gentianales
(
- Superorder:
Gentiananae
(
- Subclass:
Lamiidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Neuburgia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
N. alata · N. celebica · N. collina · N. corynocarpa · N. corynocarpum · N. macrocarpa · N. macroloba · N. moluccana · N. musculiformis · N. novocaledonica · N. sumatrana · N. tuberculata · N. tubiflora
More Info
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Further Reading
- Lear, M. 1994. Letter to Harriet Gillett dated 28 March 1994, enclosing extracts from "Plant Conservation in Fiji" written by Michael Lear and Beverley Woods in March 1992.
- Lear, M. and Woods, B. 1992. Plant conservation in Fiji. WWF 3334. Small grants for plant conservation on islands (6) Fiji.
- Smith, A.C. 1979. Flora Vitiensis Nova: a new Flora of Fiji. Pacific Tropical Botanic Garden, Hawaii.
- Li Ping-tao in Chang Mei-chen & Qiu Lian-qing, eds. 1992. Loganiaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 61: 223-309.
Notes
Contributors
- 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: 7144527
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15585407
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:546790-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 546790-1
- IUCN ID: 34371
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1022197
Footnotes
- Bingtao Li & Antony J. M. Leeuwenberg "Loganiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 15 Page 320. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
