Rinorea pubiflora

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Description

Family Violaceae

Herbs annual or perennial , shrubs , or subshrubs , sometimes scandent , rarely small trees . Leaves simple , usually alternate, sometimes opposite, with small or leaflike stipules, petiolate , margin entire, serrate, or dissected . Flowers bisexual or unisexual , rarely polygamous, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, solitary or in axillary or terminal , spicate , paniculate , or racemose inflorescences, 2-bracteolate, sometimes cleistogamous . Sepals 5, equal or unequal, imbricate, persistent . Petals 5, imbricate or convolute, unequal, anterior one usually larger than others, saccate , gibbous or spurred at base . Stamens 5; anthers erect , free or connivent or connate , connectives often dilated into membranous appendages ; filaments very short or absent, anterior 2 stamens with spurlike nectary at base. Ovary superior, 1-loculed, 3-5-carpelled, syncarpous , with 3-5 parietal placentae each with 1 to many anatropous ovules ; style simple; stigmas variously shaped. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, usually with elastic and abaxially carinate valves , rarely baccate . Seeds often carunculate; testa hard, nitid , often with oily bodies, sometimes alate ; endosperm copious , fleshy ; embryo erect.

Twenty-two genera and 900-1000 species: worldwide, but particularly in tropical regions ; three genera and 101 species (36 endemic, three introduced ) in China.[1]

Genus Rinorea

Shrubs or small trees . Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, margin entire or serrate; stipules deciduous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal , racemose, paniculate , or sometimes cymose , rarely flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic , small. Sepals subequal , leathery. Petals equal or subequal, not spurred . Filaments free or ± connate , inserted inside at top of disk; connectives dilated abaxially from base or from apex into thin, scarious appendages exceeding anthers . Disk circular, slightly 5-lobed. Ovary ovoid , with few or numerous ovules; styles erect ; stigmas terminal, not divided . Capsule usually 3-valved, rarely 2-valved. Seeds few, ellipsoid , glabrous or pubescent .

About 340 species: tropical Africa, tropical America, and tropical Asia; four species (one endemic) in China.[2]

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,582 meters (0 to 8,471 feet).[3]

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Rinorea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 344 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

R. abbreviata · R. abidjanensis · R. acommanthera · R. acuminata · R. acutidens · R. adnata · R. adolfi-friderici · R. affinis · R. afzelii · R. albersii · R. albicaulis · R. albidiflora · R. amaniensis · R. amapensis · R. amboinensis · R. andina · R. angolensis · R. anguifera · R. angustifolia · R. angustifolia albersii · R. antioquiensis · R. apertior · R. apiculata · R. apiculatus · R. arborea · R. ardisiaeflora · R. ardisiiflora · R. arenicola · R. aruwimensis · R. astrolabes · R. aucuparia · R. australasica · R. aylmeri · R. bahiensis · R. banguensis · R. batangae · R. batesii · R. beckeri · R. belalongii · R. belizensis · R. bengalensis · R. bengalensis forma bengalensis · R. beniensis · R. bicornuta · R. bipindensis · R. blakeana · R. blakeanum · R. boissieui · R. bondjorum · R. bondoensis · R. borneensis · R. botryoides · R. brachypetala · R. brachythrix · R. bracteolata · R. brandti · R. breteleri · R. brevipes · R. breviracemosa · R. brieyi · R. brownii · R. bullata · R. burtt-davyi · R. bussei · R. cafassi · R. calophylla · R. calycina · R. campoensis · R. carolinensis · R. castaneifolia · R. castaneoides · R. castilloi · R. caudata · R. cauliflora · R. celebica · R. cerasifolia · R. chevalieri · R. cinerea mahayarii · R. claessensi · R. claessensii · R. comorensis · R. comosa · R. comperei · R. condensa · R. congensis · R. convallariiflora · R. convallarioides · R. convallarioides marsabitensis · R. convallarioides var. marsabitensis · R. copelandi · R. cordata · R. coriacea · R. cornigera · R. crassifolia · R. crenata · R. curtirama · R. curtisii · R. cuspa · R. dasyadena · R. dasycaula

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Further Reading

• Wang Chingrui. 1991. Violaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 51: i-v, 1-148.
• Wang Chingrui. 1991. Violaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 51: i-v, 1-148.

Notes

Contributors

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 17, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 17, 2008:

• Herbier de la Guyane
• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3460038
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15897915
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:867356-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 221441-2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2016921

Footnotes

1. Yousheng Chen, Qiner Yang, Hideaki Ohba & Vladimir V. Nikitin "Violaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 72, 138. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Rinorea". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 72. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Mean = 194.910 meters (639.469 feet), Standard Deviation = 350.120 based on 373 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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