Cordia dodecandra
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Cordia dodecandra is a plant of the genus Kordien ( Cordia ) in the family Boraginaceae (Boraginaceae). She's in Central America is home and there Ziricote and Siricote called.
description
Cordia dodecandra grows as a deciduous tree with a spreading crown and a relatively short trunk to about 8-16 meters high. The thick bark is longitudinally fissured.
The simple leaves are short stalked. They are egg-shaped to elliptical or obovate and completely or rounded at the edge. At the top they are rounded to pointed. They are 6-15 inches long and 4-8 inches wide. The leaves are coarse-haired on top and short-bristled underneath and the petiole is short-haired. The veins are pinnate and lighter, often changing.
Terminal, multi-flowered and paniculate , short-haired inflorescences are formed. Cordia dodecandra is heterostyle and distyle. The stalked hermaphrodite flowers are double- inflated . The green-yellowish, short and almost bare sepals have grown into a blunt cup with minimal lobes. The 3–5 cm long and orange crown is fused with a salver plate, with a long narrow corolla tube, with 12–16 triangular, folded and 2.5–3.2 cm long and sweeping corolla lobes. The 12–16 enclosed or slightly protruding stamens with short stamens sit in the corolla tube. The ovary is upper constant with a long, shortly preceding or enclosed pen with four short scar branches. It is underlaid by a discus .
The round, about 5 centimeters large drupes are yellow and have a permanent calyx.
distribution
The home of the Ziricote is in Central America and the Caribbean ; the deposits extend over Mexico (states Veracruz , Chiapas , Yucatan and Campeche ), Belize , Guatemala , Honduras and Cuba .
use
The Ziricote provides a hard, heavy and beautiful tropical wood known as Bocote . It is mainly used as tonewood in musical instrument making or for furniture.
The sweet, slightly sour fruits are edible and are used raw or cooked. The rough leaves can be used for washing up or sanding.
Systematics
The first description of Cordia dodecandra by the Swiss botanist Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle was published posthumously in 1845 in Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis 9, p. 478 (the first 7 volumes were edited by de Candolle himself; the other 10 volumes were by his son Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle and other botanists continued). Synonyms of Cordia dodecandra DC. are Cordia angiocarpa A.Rich. (published in R. de la Sagra, Hist. fis. Cuba, Bot. , 11, 1850, p. 110), Cordia dodecandria Sessé & Moc. Loes , Cordia heccaidecandra . and Plethostephia angiocarpa (A.Rich.) Miers.
literature
- PC Standley, LO Williams, DN Gibson: Flora of Guatemala. Fieldiana Botany, 24, Part IX, Nos. 1-2, 1970, p. 126, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
- César Canché-Collí and Azucena Canto: Distylous traits in Cordia dodecandra and Cordia sebestena (Boraginaceae) from the Yucatan Peninsula. In: Bot. Sci. Vol. 92, No. 2, 2014, online at SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online.
Web links
- Cordia dodecandra at Useful Tropical Plants.
- Cordia dodecandra at University of Richmond (With pictures).
- Manja-Christina Reuter: Limiting factors for the establishment of Cordia dodecandra A.DC. and Bixa orellana L. on semi-arid calcareous soils in Yucatan, Mexico. Dissertation, University of Bonn, 2005, online (PDF; 4.5 MB), at University and State Library Bonn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b First publication on biodiversitylibrary.org.
- ^ A b Cordia dodecandra in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- ↑ Cordia dodecandra at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis