Ventilago

Ventilago
	Leaves and fruits of Ventilago madraspatana
Systematics
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Rose-like (rosales)
Family :	Buckthorn Family (Rhamnaceae)
Tribe :	Ventilagineae
Genre :	Ventilago
Scientific name
	Ventilago
	Garden.

Ventilago is a genus from the family of Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). The species usually form climbing shrubs or lianas . Their home is the tropics of the Old World .

description

The species of the genus form climbing shrubs or thick lianas, less often small trees. The leaves are opposite and are leathery or almost leathery, less often paper-like. The leaf base is crooked, the leaf margin entire or toothed. The flowers are solitary, in axillary clusters or in spike-like inflorescences . They are small, hermaphrodite, and fivefold. The sepals are usually present, triangular, and keeled on top. The petals are obovate to round and can be missing in a few species. The discus is thick, fleshy, and pentagonal. The ovary is round, sunk into the disc and two-sided. The stylus is divided. The fruits are lonely wing nuts .

Ventilago madraspatana

Ventilago viminalis

distribution

The approximately 40 species are native to the tropics of the Old World.

Systematics and research history

Ventilago is a genus in the family of the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae), in which it is assigned to the tribe Ventilagineae . It was set up by Joseph Gaertner in 1788 in De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum . A synonym of the genus is Apteron Kurz .

At least the following species are assigned to the genus:

Ventilago africana Exell
Ventilago denticulata Willd. : It occurs in India.
Ventilago diffusa (G.Don) Exell
Ventilago elegans Hemsl.
Ventilago inaequilateralis Merr. & Chun
Ventilago lanceata Tul.
Ventilago leiocarpa Benth. : It occurs in India, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and China.
Ventilago leptadenia Tul.
Ventilago madraspatana Gaertn. : It occurs in India, Sri Lanka, Java, Myanmar and Yunnan .
Ventilago oblongifolia flower
Ventilago viminalis Hook. : It occurs in Australia.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b D. Medan, C. Schiarend: Rhamnaceae in Klaus Kubitzki: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants , Volume VI, pp. 334, 335.
^ Yilin Chen, Carsten Schirarend: Ventilago In: Flora of China. Volume 12, p. 164.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ventilago in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
↑ Ventilago. In: The International Plant Name Index. Accessed March 21, 2015 .
↑ Ventilago . In: The Plant List. Retrieved March 21, 2015 .

literature

Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants . Volume 6: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-06512-1 , pp. 334, 335 (English).
Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 12: Hippocastanaceae through Theaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2007, ISBN 978-1-930723-64-1 , pp. 164 (English).

Web links

Commons : Ventilago - collection of images, videos and audio files

Ventilago at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, accessed March 21, 2015.

[Kubitzki334-1] A ^b D. Medan, C. Schiarend: Rhamnaceae in Klaus Kubitzki: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants , Volume VI, pp. 334, 335.

[FoC-2] Yilin Chen, Carsten Schirarend: Ventilago In: Flora of China. Volume 12, p. 164.

[GRIN-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ventilago in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.

[IPNI-4] Ventilago. In: The International Plant Name Index. Accessed March 21, 2015 .

[PlantList-5] Ventilago . In: The Plant List. Retrieved March 21, 2015 .