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Description
Family Dipterocarpaceae
Trees
, evergreen
or semievergreen, rarely deciduous in dry season
. Xylem with aromatic
resin in intercellular
resin canals. Branchlets
with stipular
scars
, sometimes annular
. Leaves simple
, alternate; stipules persistent
or caducous
, large or small; leaf blade
with lateral
veins pinnate, margin
entire or sinuate-crenate. Inflorescences few- or many-flowered, terminal
or axillary
racemes
or panicles; flowers usually sweetly scented; bracts usually fugacious
and minute, rarely persistent and large. Inflorescences, calyces, petals, ovary, and other parts usually with stellate
, squamate
, fascicled or free-standing hairs
. Flowers bisexual
, actinomorphic
, contorted. Calyx lobes
5, free
or united
at base
, imbricate in bud if not united. Petals 5, adnate
or connate
at base. Stamens (10-) 15 to many, free from or connate to petals; filaments
usually dilated
at base; anthers
2-celled, with 2 pollen sacs
per cell
(Chinese species) ; connective
appendages
aristate
, filiform
or stout. Ovary superior, rarely semi-inferior, slightly immersed
in torus, usually 3-loculed, each locule 2-, rarely many ovuled; ovules pendulous, lateral or anatropous
. Fruit usually nutlike, sometimes capsular
and 3-valved, 1(to many) -seeded, with persistent, variously accrescent
calyx of which 2 or more lobes are usually developed into lorate
wings. Seed exalbuminous
; cotyledons fleshy
, equal or unequal, applanate
or folded or cerebriform
, entire or laciniate
; radicle directed toward hilum
, usually included
between cotyledons.
About 17 genera and 550 species: tropical
Africa, Asia, and South America (in Asia, most species and genera in NW Borneo) ; five genera and 12 species (one endemic, one introduced
) in China.[1]
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:
Malvanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Clusiales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Dipterocarpaceae
()
- Genus:
Upuna
()
- Specific epithet:
borneensis
- Symington
- Botanical name: - Upuna borneensis Symington
- Specific epithet:
borneensis
- Symington
- Genus:
Upuna
(
- Family:
Dipterocarpaceae
(
- Order:
Clusiales
(
- Superorder:
Malvanae
(
- Subclass:
Dilleniidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Symington Publication : in Bull . Bot. Gard., Buitenz., Ser. 3, xvii. 88 (1941)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Upuna
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Further Reading
- Ashton, P.S. 1990. Annotations to: conservation status listings for Dipterocarpaceae.
- Van Steenis, C.G.G.J. 1948. Flora Malesiana. Flora Malesiana Foundation, Leiden.
- Tong Shaoquan & Tao Gouda. 1990. Dipterocarpaceae. In: Li Hsiwen, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 50(2): 113-131.
Notes
Contributors
- Ashton, P. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5956051
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15453883
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:321540-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 321540-1
- IUCN ID: 33148
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1021346
Footnotes
- Xi-wen Li, Jie Li & Peter S. Ashton "Dipterocarpaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 48. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
