Gymnosporia
| Gymnosporia | |
|---|---|
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| G. montana in Andhra Pradesh, India | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Genus: | Gymnosporia (Wight & Arn.) Hook.f. |
Gymnosporia is an Old World genus of plants, that comprise suffrutices, shrubs and trees.[1] It was formerly considered congeneric with Maytenus, but more recent investigations separated it based on the presence of achyblasts (truncated branchlets) and spines, alternate leaves or fascicles of leaves, an inflorescence that forms a dichasium, mostly unisexual flowers, and fruit forming a dehiscent capsule, with an aril on the seed.[1]
Range
The genus occurs in all of Africa, Madagascar and adjacent islands, southern Spain, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, southern China, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, Malesia, and in Queensland, Australia.[1] In the Afrotropical region the two main centers of diversity are in the south and the northeast.
Species
The genus includes some 102 species:[2]
- G. addat Loes.
- G. alaternifolia (Tul.) Loes.
- G. annobonensis Loes. & Mildbr.
- G. arbutifolia (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Loes.
- G. arenicola Jordaan
- G. bachmannii Loes.
- G. bailadillana V.Naray. & Mooney
- G. berberoides W.W.Sm.
- G. bonii Pit.
- G. brachystachya Baker
- G. buchananii Loes.
- G. bureaviana Loes.
- G. buxifolia (L.) Szyszył.
- G. capitata (E.Mey. ex Sond.) Loes.
- G. cassinoides (L'Hér.) Masf.
- G. championii Dunn
- G. chevalieri Tardieu
- G. commiphoroides H.Perrier
- G. cortii Pic.Serm.
- G. crassifolia Pit.
- G. crenata (G.Forst.) Seem.
- G. cryptopetala Reyes-Bet. & A.Santos
- G. curtisii King – Thailand and Malaysia
- G. devenishii Jordaan
- G. dhofarensis (Sebsebe) Jordaan
- G. diversifolia Maxim. – China, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands and N Philippines
- G. drakeana Loes.
- G. drummondii (N.Robson & Sebsebe) Jordaan
- G. elliptica (Thunb.) Schönland
- G. emarginata (Willd.) Thwaites – India and Sri Lanka
- G. falconeri M.A.Lawson
- G. forsskaoliana (Sebsebe) Jordaan
- G. fournieri (Pancher & Sebert) Loes.
- G. gariepensis Jordaan
- G. glaucophylla Jordaan
- G. graciliramula (S.J.Pei & Y.H.Li) Q.R.Liu & Funston
- G. gracilis Loes.
- G. grandifolia (Davison) Jordaan
- G. gurueensis (N.Robson) Jordaan
- G. hainanensis Merr. & Chun
- G. harenensis (Sebsebe) Jordaan
- G. harlandii Hance
- G. harveyana Loes.
- G. hemipterocarpa Jordaan
- G. heterophylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Loes.
- G. variabilis (Hemsl.) Loes.
- G. vitiensis (A.Gray) Seem. – Polynesian Islands
- G. wallichiana M.A.Lawson
- G. wightiana (Babu) R.S.Rao
- G. woodii Szyszył.
References
- 1 2 3 Marie Prins; van Wyk, A. E. (2003). "Reinstatement of Gymnosporia (Celastraceae): implications for the Flora Malesiana region". Telopea. 10 (1): 155–167.
- ↑ "Gymnosporia". The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
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