Scutia

Scutia
	Scutia myrtina
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Rose-like (rosales)
Family :	Buckthorn Family (Rhamnaceae)
Genre :	Scutia
Scientific name
	Scutia
	Comm. ex Brongn.

Scutia is a genus from the family of the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). It includes 5 tropical species, mostly in South America.

description

Scutia are evergreen, thorny, rarely climbing shrubs or small trees. The leaves are arranged opposite or almost opposite.

The flowers are in axillary, sessile, fascicle-like cymes or as a single flower. The cup-shaped flower cup is short, the discus that has grown together with the flower cup is fleshy. The ovary is semi-subordinate. The fruits are stone fruits with two to four stone pits.

Distribution and systematics

The genus Scutia includes five tropical species, four of them in South America, one in the Paleotropic ( Scutia myrtina ). Within the buckthorn family , it is classified in the tribe Rhamneae . The genus includes the following five species.

Scutia arenicola Reissek
Scutia buxifolia Reissek : It occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
Scutia colombiana M.C. Johnst.
Scutia myrtina (Burm. F.) In short : It occurs in South Africa, Swaziland, Madagascar, India, Thailand, Vietnam and China.
Scutia spicata weaver farmer

proof

↑ ^a ^b ^c 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. 331, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8
^ Marshall C. Johnston: Revision of Scutia (Rhamnaceae) In: Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 101, No. 2, 1974, pp. 64-72
^ ^A ^b Scutia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved April 29, 2017.

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[kub-1] 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. 331, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8

[2] Marshall C. Johnston: Revision of Scutia (Rhamnaceae) In: Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 101, No. 2, 1974, pp. 64-72

[GRIN-3] A ^b Scutia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved April 29, 2017.