Ziziphus
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Syrian Christ thorn ( Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. ) |
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Ziziphus is a genus from the family of the Buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). It comprises around 100 species and can be found almost worldwide in the tropics . Centers of diversity are tropical America and Southeast Asia .
description
Vegetative characteristics
The Ziziphus species are evergreen or deciduous, upright or creeping, often climbing shrubs or small to medium-sized trees. The leaves are clearly three-veined, rarely pinnate-veined and arranged alternately. Their stipules are often prickly.
Generative characteristics
The flowers are in axillary, umbrella- like cymes or as terminal or axillary thyrses . The flower cup is flat hemispherical to bowl-shaped. The fleshy, flat disc is five to ten lobed. Unlike in many genera of the family, petals are usually present. The two to three, rarely fourfold ovary is on top. The fruits are two to three, rarely single-compartment drupes with a stone core.
Systematics
The genus was first described by Philip Miller in 1754 . Within the buckthorn family , the genus is classified in the tribe Paliureae . The genus Ziziphus comprises around 100 species.
- Ziziphus abyssinica
- Ziziphus acutifolia
- Ziziphus affinis
- Ziziphus amole
- Ziziphus andamanica
- Ziziphus angustifolius
- Ziziphus apetala
- Ziziphus attopensis
- Ziziphus bidens
- Ziziphus borneensis
- Ziziphus brunoniana
- Ziziphus budhensis
- Ziziphus calophylla
- Ziziphus cambodiana
- Ziziphus caracutta
- Ziziphus chloroxylon
- Ziziphus cinnamomum
- Ziziphus cotinifolia
- Ziziphus crebrivenosa
- Ziziphus crenata
- Ziziphus cumingiana
- Ziziphus cupularis
- Ziziphus cyclocardia
- Ziziphus djsmuensis
- Ziziphus elegans
- Ziziphus elmeri
- Ziziphus forbesii
- Ziziphus fungii
- Ziziphus funiculosa
- Ziziphus glabrata
- Ziziphus glaziovii
- Ziziphus globularis
- Ziziphus grisebachiana
- Ziziphus guatemalensis
- Ziziphus hajarensis
- Ziziphus hamur
- Ziziphus havanensis
- Ziziphus havilandii
- Ziziphus hoaensis
- Ziziphus horrida
- Ziziphus hutchinsonii
- Ziziphus incurva
- Ziziphus javanensis
- Ziziphus joazeiro
- Chinese jujube ( Ziziphus jujuba Mill. )
- Ziziphus kunstleri
- Ziziphus lauii
- Ziziphus lenticellatus
- Ziziphus leucodermis
- Ziziphus lloydii
- Ziziphus lotus
- Ziziphus lucida
- Ziziphus macrophylla
- Ziziphus mairei
- Indian jujube ( Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. )
- Ziziphus melastomoides
- Ziziphus mexicana
- Ziziphus microdictya
- Ziziphus mistol
- Ziziphus montana
- Ziziphus mucronata Willd.
- Ziziphus napeca
- Ziziphus nummularia
- Ziziphus obovata
- Ziziphus obtusifolia
- Ziziphus oenopolia
- Ziziphus oligantha
- Ziziphus ornata
- Ziziphus otanesii
- Ziziphus oxyphylla
- Ziziphus palawanensis
- Ziziphus papuanus
- Ziziphus pernettyoides
- Ziziphus piurensis
- Ziziphus platyphylla
- Ziziphus poilanei
- Ziziphus pubescens
- Ziziphus pubiflora
- Ziziphus pubinervis
- Ziziphus quadrilocularis
- Ziziphus reticulata
- Ziziphus rhodoxylon
- Ziziphus rignonii
- Ziziphus rivularis
- Ziziphus robertsoniana
- Ziziphus rubiginosa
- Ziziphus rugosa
- Ziziphus saeri
- Ziziphus sarcomphalus
- Syrian Christ thorn ( Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. )
- Ziziphus strychnifolia
- Ziziphus subquinquenervia
- Ziziphus suluensis
- Ziziphus talanai
- Ziziphus taylorii
- Ziziphus thyrsiflora
- Ziziphus timoriensis
- Ziziphus trinervia
- Ziziphus truncata
- Ziziphus undulata
- Ziziphus urbanii
- Ziziphus williamii
- Ziziphus xiangchengensis
- Ziziphus xylopyra
- Ziziphus yucatanensis
- Ziziphus zeyheriana
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 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. 327, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8