Jacquinia

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Jacquinia
Jacquinia aurantiaca

Jacquinia aurantiaca

Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Asterids
Order : Heather-like (Ericales)
Family : Primrose Family (Primulaceae)
Subfamily : Theophrastoideae
Genre : Jacquinia
Scientific name
Jacquinia
L.

The Jacquinia are a plant genus from the subfamily of Theophrastoideae .

description

Jacquinia species are richly branched shrubs or small trees . The leaves are entire, small, occasionally needle-like and have a thorn at the tip.

The terminal racemose inflorescence contains few to many flowers . The flowers are five-fold and hermaphroditic. The crown is bell-shaped to urn-shaped, orange, white or yellow. The appendages of the crown are flattened and resemble the corolla. The stamens are united at the base and the anthers are obtuse-triangular.

The fruit is roughly round or oblong, the pericarp is thickened and lignified or thin and wrinkled.

distribution

The genus Jacquinia is native to the West Indies and from Mexico to northern South America.

Jacquinia aculeata
Jacquinia keyensis
Jacquinia panamensis

Systematics

The genus Jacquinia was first described in 1759 and is named after the Austrian botanist and chemist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin .

It contains about 32 species, including:

  • Jacquinia aculeata (L.) Mez : It occurs in Cuba and Hispaniola.
  • Jacquinia arborea Vahl : It occurs on islands in the Caribbean, in Mexico, Honduras and Venezuela.
  • Jacquinia armillaris Jacq. : It occurs in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and on islands in the Caribbean.
  • Jacquinia aurantiaca W.T. Aiton : It occurs from Mexico to Honduras and Panama. Some authors put it as Bonellia macrocarpa (Cav.) B. Ståhl & Källersjö to Bonellia .
  • Jacquinia berteroi Spreng. : It was first described from the Dominican Republic.
  • Jacquinia keyensis Mez : It occurs in southern Florida, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands .
  • Jacquinia nervosa C. Presl : It was first described from Mexico.
  • Jacquinia panamensis Lundell : It was first described from Panama. It is also called Bonellia macrocarpa subsp. panamensis (Lundell) B. Ståhl & Källersjö to the genus Bonellia .

proof

  • Bertil Ståhl: 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:

  1. ↑ Carl Gustaf Sandmark: Flora Jamaicensis (PDF; 2.8 MB) . Uppsala 1759, p. 27 (dissertation under Carl von Linné)
  2. ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-2390-6 (reprint ISBN 3-937872-16-7 ).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Jacquinia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved October 29, 2018.

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