Picconia excelsa

Picconia excelsa
	Picconia excelsa
Systematics
	Asterids
	Euasterids I
Order :	Mint family (Lamiales)
Family :	Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre :	Picconia
Type :	Picconia excelsa
Scientific name
	Picconia excelsa
	( Aiton ) DC.

Picconia excelsa is a species of the genus Picconia and thus from the family of the olive plants (Oleaceae). The generic name honors the Italian clergyman and agronomist Giammaria Picconi (Giovanni Maria Piccone) (1772-1832).

features

Picconia excelsa with inflorescence

Picconia excelsa is a tree that reaches heights of up to 18 meters. Branches and leaves are bare. The branches are round, white and have lip-shaped white lenticels. The leaves are 2 to 5 centimeters wide, usually broadly eilanzettlich, leathery, with entire margins, rarely slightly serrated, with a rolled edge, finely dotted at a distance and narrowing winged into the stalk. The flowers are white. The corolla tube is short to absent. The crown is deeply split into two columns, with each of the two parts itself being in two parts. The fruits are olive-shaped, pointed on both sides and dry.

Occurrence

Picconia excelsa occurs on the Canary Islands El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife and Gran Canaria as well as on Madeira.

Related species

The only other species in this genus is Picconia azorica (Tutin) Knobl. It occurs in the Azores.

supporting documents

Adalbert Hohenester, Walter Welss: Excursion flora for the Canary Islands. With views of the whole of Macaronesia . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1993, ISBN 3-8001-3466-7 ( PDF file; 23.2 MB ).

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Picconia excelsa. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 30, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Picconia excelsa - collection of images, videos and audio files

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

[WCSP-2] Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Picconia excelsa. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 30, 2018.