Vatica cuspidata

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Overview

Critically Endangered

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]

Genus Vatica

Trees of main canopy and understory , unbuttressed, white resinous . Bark gray, smooth , often with annular striations . Stipules caducous , small; leaf blade ± leathery, pinnately veined, tertiary reticulate veins conspicuous , margin entire. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymose panicles, usually stellate pubescent . Calyx tube short; sepals narrowly imbricate, equal or subequal . Petals white, often with a mauve suffusion , lorate , large, falling separately. Stamens 15; filaments unequal, stout; anthers ellipsoid ; connective appendages short, obtuse . Ovary ovoid , pubescent; style cylindric , short; stigma capitate or conic, prominent , entire or dentate . Nut globose or ellipsoid, 1- or 2-seeded; calyx segments equal or unequal, with 2 developed into long wings.

About 65 species: Cambodia, China, E and S India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam; three species (one endemic) in China.[2]

Habitat

Ecology: Inland ridges and coastal hills .[3]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Desch Publication : in Malayan Forester, 1934, iii. 200 Basionym author: (Ridl.)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Vatica

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 154 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

V. acrocarpa · V. acuminata · V. aerea · V. affinis · V. africana · V. albiramis · V. apteranthera · V. astrotricha · V. badiifolia · V. bancana · V. bantamensis · V. beccariana · V. beccarii · V. bella · V. blancoana · V. borneensis · V. brevipes · V. brunigii · V. burckii · V. canaca · V. cauliflora · V. celebensis · V. celebica · V. chartacea · V. chevalieri · V. chinensis · V. cinerea · V. compressa · V. congesta · V. cordata · V. coriacea · V. cupularis · V. curtisii · V. cuspidata · V. diospyroides (Resk Puteh Keruing) · V. disticha · V. dulitensis · V. dyeri · V. elliptica · V. enderti · V. endertii · V. eximia · V. faginea · V. flavida · V. flavovirens · V. fleuryana · V. forbesiana · V. furfuracea · V. gardneri · V. gilleti · V. glabrata · V. globosa · V. grandiflora · V. granulata · V. griffithii · V. guangxiensis · V. hainanensis · V. harmandiana · V. harmandii · V. havilandii · V. helferi · V. heteroptera · V. hullettii · V. hypoleuca · V. javanica · V. javanica javanica · V. javanica var. scaphifolia · V. katangensis · V. laccifera · V. lamponga · V. lanceaefolia · V. laurifolia · V. lepidota · V. leucocarpa · V. lewisiana · V. lobata · V. lowii · V. lutea · V. maingayi · V. mangachapoi · V. maritima · V. melanoxylon · V. menungau · V. micrantha · V. mindanaensis · V. mindanensis · V. moluccana · V. moonii · V. nitens · V. oblonga · V. oblongifolia · V. oblongifolia crassilobata · V. oblongifolia elliptifolia · V. oblongifolia multinervosa · V. oblongifolia oblongifolia · V. oblongifolia selakoensis · V. obovata · V. obscura · V. obtusifolia · V. odorata

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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.
• Ashton, P. 1998. Vatica cuspidata. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7141482
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:321620-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 321620-1
• IUCN ID: 31439
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1020009

Footnotes

1. 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]
2. "Vatica". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 48, 52. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Ashton, P. 1998. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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