Flindersia

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Flindersia
Flindersia australis

Flindersia australis

Systematics
Rosids
Eurosiden II
Order : Sapindales (Sapindales)
Family : Rhombus family (Rutaceae)
Subfamily : Flindersioideae
Genre : Flindersia
Scientific name
Flindersia
R.Br.

Flindersia is a genus of plants withinthe diamond family (Rutaceae).

description

Illustration of Flindersia maculosa
Photo of herbarium specimens of Flindersia xanthoxyla
Immature prickly fruits of Flindersia australis
Open ripe fruit of Flindersia australis
Flindersia bennettiana in bloom

Vegetative characteristics

Flindersia species grow as small to large trees . They contain essential oils . The plant parts are smooth or are covered with simple, flaky or star-shaped hairs ( trichomes ). The alternating to oppositely arranged leaves are simple or composite. When they are assembled, they are paired and unpaired, with one to 16 pinnate leaves. The leaflets are opposite or almost so on the rachis . The leaf margin is whole.

Generative characteristics

The flowers are in the upper leaf axils or terminally in paniculate inflorescences .

The five-fold flowers are hermaphroditic or functionally male and have a double flower envelope (perianth). The five sepals are free or only fused at their base. The five free petals overlap like roof tiles. In the hermaphroditic and male flowers there is only one circle (the outer stamen circle) with five fertile stamens and one circle with five staminodes . In the hermaphrodite flowers are five carpels an ovary grown. There are four to six ovules per carpel .

More or less woody, five-fold capsule fruits are formed. The brown seeds are winged.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Flindersia was founded in 1814 by Robert Brown in General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis , 2, Appendix III, p. 595, table 1. Type species is Flindersia australis R.Br. The genus Flindersia was named after the leader of the expedition on which the first species was discovered, Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814). Synonyms for Flindersia R.Br. are: Strzeleckya F.Muell. , Oxleya Hook. In 1969, the genus Flindersia was revised by Thomas G. Hartley in A revision of the genus Flindersia (Rutaceae). in Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. Volume 50, Issue 4, pp. 481-526.

Flindersia belongs to the subfamily of the Flindersioideae in the diamond family (Rutaceae).

The genus Flindersia occurs mainly (14 species) in the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales , 11 are only native there. There are also species in the Moluccas , New Guinea and New Caledonia .

The genus Flindersia belongs to the subfamily Flindersioideae within the family Rutaceae . It was formerly part of the Flindersiaceae CTWhite ex Airy Shaw family .

There are around 13 to 16 species of Flindersia :

photos

Flindersia brayleyana :

swell

  • MF Porteners: Flindersia at New South Wales Flora Online .
  • Thomas Gordon Hartley : A revision of the genus Flindersia (Rutaceae). In: Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. Volume 50, Issue 4, 1969.
  • Trevor Whiffin: Variation and Evolution in the Genus Flindersia (Rutaceae). : I. Review of the Genus. , Pp. 635-643 and II. Review of methods for geographic variation analysis of volatile oil data. Pp. 645-657, In: Australian Journal of Botany. Volume 30, Issue 6, 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph J. Brophy, Robert J. Goldsack & Paul I. Forster: The leaf oils of the australian species of Flindersia (Rutaceae). , In: Journal of Essential Oil Research , Volume 17, No. 4, 2005, pp. 388-395.
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Enter the taxon in the search mask for Australian Plant Name Index = APNI.
  3. a b c d Thomas G. Hartley: A revision of the genus Flindersia (Rutaceae). in Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. Volume 50, Issue 4, 1969, pp. 481-526. scanned at biodiversitylibrary.org .
  4. a b c d Flindersia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

Web links

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