Pisonia
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Pisonia brunoniana | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Nyctaginaceae |
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Genus: | Pisonia L.[1] |
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Pisonia is a genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae. It was named for Dutch physician and naturalist Willem Piso (1611–1678).[3] Certain species in this genus are known as catchbirdtrees, birdcatcher trees or birdlime trees because they catch birds.[4] The sticky seeds are postulated to be an adaptation of some island species that ensures the dispersal of seeds between islands by attaching them to birds, and also allows the enriching of coralline sands. (Should a fledgling fall to the ground, become entangled in the Pisonia's sticky seeds, and be unable to free itself, then it will starve, and so enrich the soil within the tree's rootzone.[4]) These island species include P. brunoniana of Australasia and Polynesia and P. umbellifera, which is widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific region.
Species[]
- L. – pullback (pantropical)[5]
- Span.
- (Heimerl) Britton ex Standl. – corcho bobo
- Pisonia brunoniana Endl. – Australasian catchbirdtree (Australasia and Polynesia)
- (S.Watson) Standl. – Mexican devil's-claws
- Pisonia donnellsmithii Heimerl ex Standl. (El Salvador, Guatemala)
- Pisonia ekmani Heimerl (Cuba)
- Blume
- Hook. f. pega pega (Galápagos Islands)
- Britt. ex Small – Rock Key devil's-claws
- Pisonia graciliscens (Heimerl) Stenmerik (French Polynesia)
- Pisonia grandis R.Br. – grand devil's-claws (Indo-Pacific)
- (named after , 1873-1967)[6] (Puerto Rico, Northern Karst and the Sierra de Cayey)
- Griseb. – smooth devil's-claws
- (named after Ana Roqué de Duprey, 1853-1933)[6] (Puerto Rico, Central Mountain Range and the Luquillo Mountains)
- Hillebr. – āulu (Hawaii)[7]
- Pisonia sechellarum F.Friedmann (Seychelles)
- Pisonia siphonocarpa (Heimerl) Stenmerik (French Polynesia)
- Sw. – water mampoo
- Pisonia umbellifera (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Seem. – umbrella catchbirdtree (Indo-Pacific)
- Pisonia wagneriana Fosberg – Kauaʻi catchbirdtree, pāpala kēpau (island of Kauaʻi in Hawaii)
- Griseb.[8][9]
Formerly placed here[]
- (Spreng.) Little (as P. discolor Spreng.)[9]
Gallery[]
in Hyderabad, India
Pisonia alba in Hyderabad
References[]
- ^ "Genus: Pisonia L." Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
- ^ "Pisonia L." TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
- ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology. 3. p. 2083. ISBN 978-0-8493-2673-8.
- ^ a b "Planet Earth II: Episode 1 Islands (Noddies on the Pisonia trees in the Seychelles)". BBC Earth. 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
- ^ "Pisonia aculeata L. pull-back-and-hold" (PDF). International Institute of Tropical Forestry. United States Forest Service. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
- ^ a b Caraballo-Ortiz, Marcos; Trejo-Torres, Jorge (26 September 2017). "Two new endemic tree species from Puerto Rico: Pisonia horneae and Pisonia roqueae (Nyctaginaceae)". PhytoKeys (86): 97–115. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.86.11249. PMC 5672120. PMID 29158698. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
- ^ Little Jr., Elbert L.; Roger G. Skolmen (1989). "Āulu" (PDF). United States Forest Service. Cite journal requires
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(help)[permanent dead link] - ^ "Pisonia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
- ^ a b "GRIN Species records of Pisonia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2000-12-14. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
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