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Japanese Stauntonia (Stauntonia hexaphylla)

Japanese Stauntonia ( Stauntonia hexaphylla )

Systematics
Subdivision : Seed plants (Spermatophytina)
Class : Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida)
Eudicotyledons
Order : Buttercups (Ranunculales)
Family : Finger fruit family (Lardizabalaceae)
Genre : Amazement
Scientific name
Stauntonia
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The Stauntonia ( Stauntonia ) are a genus of plants within the finger fruit family (Lardizabalaceae). from Asia. In the temperate areas, Japanese Stauntonia is rarely used as an ornamental plant.

description

Stauntonia are evergreen links Winder - shrubs with alternate standing leaves . The leaves have long petioles and are either palm-shaped into three to nine leaflets or pinnate divided into three leaflets. The leaflets stand on stems of different lengths and have entire margins. The shrubs are dioecious , the flowers are in axillary clusters of a few to more than ten flowers. The three outer sepals are fleshy and wider than the three inner ones . Six inconspicuous petals can be formed, but they can also be missing. The female flowers have three ovary and staminodes reduced stamens . The male flowers have six fused stamens, petals and nectaries are absent. The sepals are slightly smaller than those of female flowers. As fruits ovoid, fleshy-juicy, are seed-rich berries formed.

Distribution and location requirements

The species of the genus can be found in Asia from Myanmar to Taiwan and Japan .

Systematics

Foliage leaves and fruit of Stauntonia hexaphylla
Japanese Stauntonia ( Stauntonia hexaphylla )
Flower of Stauntonia purpurea , view of a male flower

The genus Stauntonia belongs to the tribe Lardizabaleae in the subfamily Lardizabaloideae within the finger fruit family (Lardizabalaceae). There they are assigned to the. The genus name Stauntonia honors the British physician and naturalist Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801).

The genus Stauntonia contains about 28 species:

use

The Japanese Stauntonia ( Stauntonia hexaphylla ) is used as an ornamental plant because of its decorative flowers and remarkable fruit decorations.

proof

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 630.
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Dezhao Chen, Tatemi Shimizu: Lardizabalaceae. Stauntonia , pp. 447-451 - the same text online as the printed work , In: Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (eds.): Flora of China. Volume 6: Caryophyllaceae through Lardizabalaceae. Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 2001, ISBN 1-930723-05-9 .
  3. ^ A b Stauntonia in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  4. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Stauntonia. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved September 12, 2018.

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