Qaisera coronata
(No common name)Taxonomy
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Flowering Plants
- Subphylum: Spermatophytina
(auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Seed Plants
- Infraphylum: Angiospermae
auct.
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Lamiidae
Takhtajan ex Reveal, 1992
- Superorder: Gentiananae
Thorne ex Reveal, 1992
- Order: Gentianales
Lindley, 1833
- Family: Gentianaceae
(jen-shun-AY-see-ay)
Durande, 1782, nom. cons. - Gentian Family
- Genus: Qaisera
- Specific epithet: coronata (D.Don ex Royle) Omer
- Botanical name: Qaisera coronata (D.Don ex Royle) Omer
- Specific epithet: coronata (D.Don ex Royle) Omer
- Genus: Qaisera
- Family: Gentianaceae
(jen-shun-AY-see-ay)
Durande, 1782, nom. cons. - Gentian Family
- Order: Gentianales
Lindley, 1833
- Superorder: Gentiananae
Thorne ex Reveal, 1992
- Subclass: Lamiidae
Takhtajan ex Reveal, 1992
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Angiospermae
auct.
- Subphylum: Spermatophytina
(auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Seed Plants
- Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Flowering Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
Physical Description
Family Gentianaceae:
Herbs [shrubs or small trees], annual, biennial, or perennial. Stems ascending, erect, or twining. Leaves opposite, less often alternate or whorled, simple, base connate; stipules absent. Inflorescences simple or complex cymes, sometimes reduced to sessile clusters, often in a thyrse or 1-flowered. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual, 4 or 5 (or 6-8) [-12]-merous. Calyx tubular, obconic, campanulate, or rotate, lobes joined at least basally. Corolla tubular, obconic, salverform, funnelform, campanulate, or rotate, rarely with basal spurs; lobes overlapping to right or rarely valvate in bud; plicae (extensions of the corolla tube between the lobes) present or absent. Stamens inserted on corolla tube or occasionally at sinus between corolla lobes, alternate with lobes; anthers basifixed or dorsifixed, 2-locular. Nectaries absent or attached to ovary base or corolla. Ovary usually 1-locular at least apically, rarely 2-locular due to intrusion of a lamellate placenta into locular cavity. Fruit a 2-valved capsule, rarely a berry. Seeds many or rarely few, small; endosperm abundant [scant in saprophytic genera].
About 80 genera and 700 species: worldwide; 20 genera and 419 species in China, of which two genera and 251 species are endemic.[1]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Qaisera:
There are approximately 3 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: Q. carinata · Q. coronata · Q. hugelii
Bibliography
- Ho Ting-nung; Liu Shang-wu, & Wu Ching-ju in Ho Ting-nung, ed. 1988. Gentianaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 62: 1-411.
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Notes
Identifiers:
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15497320
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:947230-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3435185
Footnotes:
- Ting-nung Ho & James S. Pringle "Gentianaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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