Pomaderris
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Pomaderris ferruginea |
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Pomaderris is a genus from the family of the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). It is native to Australia and New Zealand and includes over 40 species.
description
Pomaderris are evergreen, unreinforced shrubs or multi-stemmed trees with a height of up to ten meters. The alternate leaves are clearly curled at their edge.
The flowers are in umbel-shaped small cymes either as terminal grapes or panicles rarely, occasionally as kopfige tufts, as individual flowers. A flower cup is missing, the very thin disc is wreath-shaped and may be missing, petals may be missing.
The ovary is semi-subordinate, the partial fruits open laterally.
Distribution and systematics
Pomaderris are native to Australia and New Zealand. The genus was first described in 1804 by Jacques Julien Houtou de Labillardière . Within the buckthorn family, it is classified in the tribe Pomaderreae . The genus comprises over 40 species, including the Pomaderris aspera , which is occasionally used as an ornamental shrub, and the type species Pomaderris elliptica .
proof
- ↑ a b c d D. Medan, C. Schirarend: Rhamnaceae In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales , 2004 , P. 332, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8
