Deherainia
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The deherainia are a plant genus from the subfamily of Theophrastoideae . The genus is named after the French scientist Pierre-Paul Dehérain (1830–1902).
description
Deherainia are shrubs or small trees. The leaves are medium-sized and have entire margins .
The inflorescence is a terminal cluster of single to a few flowers . The flowers are five-fold and hermaphroditic, the crown is broadly bell-shaped to urn-shaped and green. The appendages of the crown are lanceolate or inverted-egg-shaped, the stamens are united at the base, the anthers are obtuse-triangular.
The fruit is egg-shaped, tapering towards the tip, the pericarp is thin and wrinkled.
distribution
The genus is native to Eastern Mexico to Honduras and Costa Rica .
Systematics
The genus contains three species, a fourth from Cuba has been placed in its own genus, Neomezia .
- Deherainia lageniformis Gómez-Laur. & N.Zamora - Costa Rica
- Deherainia matudae Lundell - southern Mexico to Guatemala
- Deherainia smaragdina (Linden) Decne. - southern Mexico to Belize and Honduras
proof
- B. Stahl: Theophrastaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Volume 6: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-06512-1 , pp. 472–478 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Individual evidence
Most of the information in this article has been taken from the sources given under references; the following sources are also cited:
- ↑ Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., 2000, p. 741. ISBN 0849326761
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
- ↑ Jorge Gómez-Laurito, Nelson Zamora: Deherainia lageniformis (Theophrastaceae), a New Species from Costa Rica . In: Novon . tape 8 , 1998, pp. 141-143 ( botanicus.org ).
