Ouratea elegans

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Overview

Critically Endangered

Description

Family Ochnaceae

Trees and shrubs , rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, simple , rarely pinnately compound , petiolate ; stipules entire or sometimes lacerate , persistent or caducous ; leaf blade margin dentate , serrate or rarely entire; veins pinnate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary , cymose or racemose, rarely 1-flowered. Flowers generally bisexual , actinomorphic or more rarely zygomorphic, bracteate ; pedicels articulated. Sepals (2-4) 5(10-15), free or more rarely united , imbricate or valvate . Petals (3-) 5(-8), mostly free, clawed to sessile, contorted or imbricate. Stamens 5-10 or numerous ; filaments generally free and persistent, or anthers sessile; anthers basifixed , longitudinally dehiscent or poricidal ; staminodes present or not, sometimes persistent, awl-shaped , spatulate , or petaloid , sometimes connected into a tube . Gynoecium (2 or) 3-5(-15) -carpellate, gynophore present or rarely absent; ovary superior, entire or deeply lobed , generally long styled; placentation basal, axile or parietal , rarely laminar ; ovules 1 or 2 or numerous per locule; stigma entire or sometimes shortly divided at apex. Fruit fleshy or non-fleshy, generally a septicidal capsule, rarely a nut with accrescent sepals or a drupe, or separating into up to 15 blackish drupelets on a colored accrescent receptacle. Seeds endospermic or non-endospermic, winged or not; germination phanerocotylar or cryptocotylar ; embryo usually straight, more rarely curved .

About 27 genera and ca. 500 species: tropical zones, mainly in the Neotropics; three genera and four species (one endemic) in China.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Urb. Publication : Symb. Antill. (Urban) v. 428 (1908).

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ouratea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 460 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

O. acuminata · O. acuminatissima · O. acunae · O. acuta · O. acutissima · O. affinis · O. afzelii · O. agrophylla · O. alternifolia · O. ambacensis · O. amplectens · O. amplexicaulis · O. amplifolia · O. anceps · O. andongensis · O. angulata · O. angusta · O. angustifolia · O. apurensis · O. aquatica · O. arbobrevicalyx · O. arcta · O. arnoldiana · O. aromatica · O. articulata · O. ashantiensis · O. asisae · O. attenuata · O. australis · O. axillaris · O. ayacichae · O. ayacuchae · O. bahiensis · O. barrae · O. barteri · O. batesi · O. beccariana · O. bella · O. bipartita · O. blanchetiana · O. boliviana · O. borneensis · O. brachybotrys · O. bracteata · O. bracteato-pedunculata · O. bracteolata · O. brevcalyx · O. brevicalyx · O. brevipedicellata · O. brevipes · O. brunneo-purpurea · O. buchholzii · O. buchneri · O. bukobensis · O. cabrae · O. calantha · O. calophylla · O. calophylloides · O. cameronii · O. campos-portoi · O. candollei · O. caracasana · O. cardiosperma · O. cassinefolia · O. castaneaefolia · O. castaneifolia · O. cataractarum · O. caudata · O. cemuiflora · O. cerebroidea · O. cernuiflora · O. chafanjonii · O. chaffanjonii · O. chiribiquetensis · O. chocoensis · O. chrysopetala · O. cidiana · O. cinerea · O. cinnamomea · O. claessensi · O. claessensii · O. clarkii · O. claudei · O. claussenii · O. coccinea · O. cocleensis · O. comorensis · O. conduplicata · O. confertiflora · O. congesta · O. conrauana · O. cordata · O. coriacea · O. cornuta · O. corymbosa · O. costaricensis · O. crassa · O. crassifolia · O. crassifolia var. angustifolia · O. crassifolia var. brevifolia

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Further Reading

• Flora of Jamaica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island, by William Fawcett and Alfred Barton Rendle. London.Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1910- ENG url p. 174.
• Kelly, D.L. 1988. The threatened flowering plants of Jamaica. Biological Conservation 46(3): 201-216.
• Kelly, D.L. 1994. Systematic list of threatened flowering plant species in the Jamaican flora.
• The Nature Conservancy. 1996. Natural Heritage Central Database. (Status and distribution data on Latin American plants, developed in collaboration with Latin American Conservation Data Centers and Missouri Botanical Garden).
• Wei Chao-fen. 1984. Ochnaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 302-308.

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: 3459304
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15654666
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:606964-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 606964-1
• IUCN ID: 33794
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1021829

Footnotes

1. Zhixiang Zhang & Maria do Carmo E. Amaral "Ochnaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 361. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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