Spiraeanthemum
Spiraeanthemum | |
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Spiraeanthemum katakata | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Oxalidales |
Family: | Cunoniaceae |
Genus: | Spiraeanthemum A.Gray |
Synonyms | |
Acsmithia Hoogland |
Spiraeanthemum is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Cunoniaceae. it includes about 19 species from Australia, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa. Leaves are simple, opposite or whorled, with toothed or entire margins. Inflorescences are paniculate, flowers unisexual or hermaphrodite, and the fruits are follicular with free carpels. It belongs to the tribe Spiraeanthemeae,[1] and now includes the species formerly placed in Acsmithia.[2]
List of species[]
Australia
- F. Muell.
New Guinea and Moluccas
- Pulle
- Schltr.
- Schltr.
- Schltr.
Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Ireland and Bougainville
- Hoogland
- Seem. subsp. kajewskii (Perry) Hoogland
Vanuatu
- Seem. subsp. macgillivrayi
New Caledonia
- Schltr.
- (Hoogland) Pillon
- Brongn. & Gris
- Vieill. ex Pamp.
- (Hoogland) Pillon
- Schltr.
- Pamp.
Fiji
- Spiraeanthemum graeffei Seem.
- Spiraeanthemum katakata Seem.
- Spiraeanthemum serratum Gillespie
- Spiraeanthemum vitiense A. Gray
Samoa
- A. Gray
References[]
- ^ Bradford, J.C., Hopkins, H.CF., Barnes, R.W . (2004). Cunoniaceae. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Volume VI, Flowering plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales. Springer, Heidelberg. p 91-111.
- ^ Pillon, Y., Hopkins, H. C., Munzinger, J., & Chase, M. W. (2009). A molecular and morphological survey of generic limits of Acsmithia and Spiraeanthemum (Cunoniaceae). Systematic Botany, 141-148.
Categories:
- Spiraeanthemum
- Oxalidales genera
- Flora of New Caledonia