Prinsepia scandens
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Prinsepia scandens is a climbing shrub with white flowers and elongated stone fruits from the family of the rose family (Rosaceae). The natural range of this thorn cherry species is on Taiwan .
description
Prinsepia scandens is a 2 to 8 meter high, climbing shrub with greenish, angled branches . The thorns are 1.0 to 1.5 inches long, glabrous and sometimes leafy. The winter buds are egg-shaped and bare. The leaves have a bare stalk about 5 to 10 millimeters long, stipules have not been observed. The leaf blade is simple, thin-leathery, 3.5 to 5.5 inches long and 1.2 to 2.0 inches wide, ovate-lanceolate, with a long, pointed tip, a narrow wedge-shaped to wedge-shaped base and a serrated leaf margin . Both sides of the leaf are green, the underside a little lighter than the upper side. The central vein is slightly sunk on the top, protruding on the bottom.
The flowers are individually, in bundles or traubig at the ends of branches or leaf axils. The bracts are covered with glands. The flowers are about 1 centimeter in diameter. The flower stalk is 5 to 7 millimeters long. The flower cup is cup-shaped and bare on the outside. The sepals are round and have a diameter of 3 to 5 millimeters, on the outside bare with a rounded tip. The petals are white, rounded with a diameter of about 5 millimeters. About 30 stamens are formed. The scar is widened. The stone fruits are elongated. Prinsepia scandens flowers from April to June.
distribution
The natural range is on Taiwan . Prinsepia scandens grows in thickets in mountains at an altitude of 1500 to 3000 meters.
Systematics and research history
Prinsepia scandens is a kind from the genus of prinsepia ( Prinsepia ) in the family of Rosaceae (Rosaceae). There it is assigned to the tribe Osmaronieae in the subfamily Spiraeoideae . The species was of Hayata Bunzo 1915 Icones plantarum formosanarum nec non et contributiones ad floram formosanam first described . The generic name Prinsepia is reminiscent of the English archaeologist and colonial administrator James Prinsep (1799-1840), who was the first European to decipher the commandments of the ancient Indian king Ashoka . The specific epithet scandens comes from Latin, means "climbing" and thus refers to the climbing growth.
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literature
- Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 9: Pittosporaceae through Connaraceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2003, ISBN 1-930723-14-8 , pp. 390 (English).
- Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Prinsepia scandens in Flora of China , Volume 9, p. 390
- ↑ D. Potter, T. Eriksson, RC Evans, S. Oh, JEE Smedmark, DR Morgan, M. Kerr, KR Robertson, M. Arsenault, TA Dickinson, CS Campbell: Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae . Plant Systematics and Evolution, Volume 266, 2007, pp. 5-43. doi : 10.1007 / s00606-007-0539-9
- ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 645
- ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 672
Web links
- Prinsepia scandens. In: The Plant List. Retrieved May 28, 2012 .