Goupia
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Goupia is the only genus of plants ofthe Goupiaceae family within the order of the Malpighia-like (Malpighiales).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The Goupia species are evergreen or semi-evergreen trees or shrubs . Goupia glabra forms buttress roots . The alternate and two-row leaves are petiolate. The simple leaf blade is leathery, shiny and pinnate. The leaf margin is smooth or serrated in seedlings, rarely in older plants. The leathery stipules are narrow and very long.
Generative characteristics
The axillary, on an inflorescence stem, doldy total inflorescences consist of very short racemose partial inflorescences with bracts . The hermaphrodite, radial symmetry flowers are five-fold with double perianth . There is a ring-shaped disc . The five identical sepals are fused at their base. The five free, very long petals are yellow and red at the base; the upper third is bent downwards in the bud and remains "s" -shaped or kinked even when the flower is open. There is only one circle with five identical, fertile, free stamens ; the inner circle is missing. The stamens are very short. Five carpels are a syncarp, Upper permanent ovary grown; it is partially enveloped by the disc. There are 7 to 50 bitegmic ovules per ovary compartment . There are five free pens available; they are shorter than the ovary.
The small, hard closing fruit is a berry-like, two- to three- chamber stone fruit that contains many seeds.
distribution
The neotropical genus Goupia occurs only in northern South America : in Guiana and in northern Brazil .
Systematics
The genus Goupia was established in 1775 by Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet n Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise , 1, p. 295, plate 116. Type species is Goupia glabra Aubl. The Goupiaceae family was founded in 1862 by John Miers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History , series 3, 9, p. 292.
The genus Goupia was previously placed in the family of the Celastraceae in the order of the Celastrales . According to molecular genetic studies, it belongs to the Malpighiales order .
In the genus of the Goupia and thus in the family there are only two to three species:
- Goupia cinerascens Poepp. ex Baill.
- Goupia glabra Aubl. (Syn .: Goupia paraensis Huber , Goupia tomentosa Aubl. )
- Goupia guatemalensis Lundell
use
The light, reddish-brown hardwood (trade names: copy, kabukalli) from Goupia glabra is used, for example , to build houses and to make furniture, but its unpleasant smell limits its use. It is not covered by CITES protection .
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- The family of Goupiaceae in APWebsite. (engl.)
- The Goupiaceae family by L. Watson, MJ Dallwitz (1992 to 2000): The Families of Flowering Plants: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval . (Section description)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Goupia at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ↑ Data sheet from the FSC = Forest Stewardship Council .
- ↑ Data sheet of the USDA Forest Service - Forest Products Laboratory : http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets/Chudnoff/TropAmerican/htmlDocs_tropamerican/Goupiaglabra.html ( Memento of March 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ HG Richter, MJ Dallwitz: Goupia glabra for DELTA's commercial timber.
Web links
- Goupiaceae in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- Illustration by Goupia glabra .
