Atractocarpus
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| Atractocarpus fitzalanii | |
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| Genus: | Atractocarpus |
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| Atractocarpus heterophyllus | |
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Atractocarpus, members of which are commonly known as native gardenias in Australia, is a genus of flowering plant of the gardenia family Rubiaceae found in Australia. Within the family it lies in the Gardenieae. Defined by botanists Rudolf Schlechter and Kurt Krause in 1908, the type species is the species Atractocarpus heterophyllus, formerly A. bracteatus, which is found only on New Caledonia. Subsequently several other species were described from New Caledonia.
Meanwhile the genera Randia and Gardenia had been used as wastebasket taxon, where many species that had been difficult to place had been placed by default. Several Australian species of the genus Randia were found to be not closely related to neotropical species and were transferred in a review of the genera by Australian botanist Christopher Puttock in 1999; these include several garden plant species such as Atractocarpus chartaceus, A. benthamianus and A. fitzalanii.[2]
The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek terms atractos "spindle", and karpos "fruit", from the spindle-shaped fruit of the type species.[3]
Puttock also proposed that the genera Sukunia, Trukia, Neofranciella, and Sulitia (the last two consisting of once species each) be sunk into Atractocarpus. The reuslting genus now contains around forty species, with seven found in Australia, and others in the surrounding countries of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, and northeast to Tahiti. All species are found in a type of lowland rainforest known as mesophyll vine forests, as well as swamp forests and vine thickets.[4]
Selected species
- Atractocarpus benthamianus (F.Muell.) Puttock (New South Wales, Queensland)
- Atractocarpus chartaceus (F.Muell.) Puttock - Narrow-leaved Gardenia, Thin-leaved Gardenia (New South Wales, Queensland)
- Atractocarpus fitzalanii (F.Muell.) Puttock - Brown Gardenia, Yellow Mangosteen (Queensland)
References
- ^ "Genus Atractocarpus". Taxonomy. UniProt. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
- ^ Puttock CF, Quinn CJ (1999). "Generic concepts in Australian Gardenieae (Rubiaceae): a cladistic approach". Australian Systematic Botany. 12 (2). CSIRO Publishing: 181–99. doi:10.1071/SB98001.
- ^ Floyd, Alex G. (2009). Rainforest Trees of Mainland Southeastern Australia. Lismore, NSW: Terania Rainforest Publishing. p. 331. ISBN 09589443673.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: length (help) - ^ Puttock CF (1999). "Revision of Atractocarpus (Rubiaceae: Gardenieae) in Australia and New Combinations for Some Extra-Australian Taxa". Australian Systematic Botany. 12. CSIRO Publishing: 271–309. doi:10.1071/SB97030.
