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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: A tree found in Amazonian tierra firme forest (400–500 m ).[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:
Parathesis
()
- Specific epithet:
palaciosii
- Pipoly
- Botanical name: - Parathesis palaciosii Pipoly
- Specific epithet:
palaciosii
- Pipoly
- Genus:
Parathesis
(
- Family:
Myrsinaceae
(
- Order:
Myrsinales
(
- Superorder:
Primulanae
(
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Parathesis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 140 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
P. acostensis · P. acuminata · P. adenanthera · P. aeruginosa · P. agostiniana · P. amazonica · P. amplifolia · P. angustifolia · P. aurantiaca · P. aurantica (Cerecito) · P. baruana · P. belizensis · P. bicolor · P. bracteolata · P. breedlovei · P. brevipes · P. calophylla · P. calzadae · P. candolleana · P. cartagoana · P. chiapensis · P. chrysophylla · P. chrysphylla · P. cintalapana · P. columnaris · P. congesta (Amarante Silvestre) · P. conzattii · P. corymbosa · P. costaricensis · P. costata · P. crassipes · P. crassiramea · P. crenulata (Scratchthroat) · P. croatii · P. cubana · P. cuspidata · P. donnell-smithii · P. eggersiana · P. elliptica · P. emarginata · P. escuintlensis · P. ferruginea · P. fusca · P. glaberima · P. glaberrima · P. glabra · P. glendae · P. gracilis · P. guatemalensis · P. hintonii · P. hondurensis · P. implexa · P. kallunkiae · P. kallunkii · P. kochii · P. lanceolata · P. latifolia · P. laxa · P. lenticellata · P. leptopa · P. lineata · P. longipedicellata · P. longipetiolata · P. macrantha · P. macrocarpa · P. macronema · P. macrophylla · P. matudai · P. melanosticta · P. membranacea · P. mexicana · P. micranthera · P. microcalyx · P. minutiflora · P. mirandae · P. montana · P. moritziana · P. multiflora · P. navarretei · P. neei · P. nigropunctata · P. oaxacana · P. oblanceolata · P. oblongifolia · P. obovata · P. obtusa · P. oerstediana · P. oroana · P. oxyphylla · P. pajapanensis · P. palaciosii · P. pallida · P. panamensis · P. papillosa · P. parvissima · P. perpunctata · P. pipolyana · P. platyphylla · P. pleurobotryosa · P. prionophylla
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Further Reading
- Chen Chieh. 1979. Myrsinaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 58: 1-147.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 20, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 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 20, 2007:
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3423220
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15637936
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:972378-1
- IUCN ID: 45510
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1028492
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]
