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Magnoliopsida
Gouania Jacq.
EOL Text
Climbing shrubs or lianes; branches with coiled tendrils. Leaves alternate. Inflorescence a thyrse. Flowers usually bisexual, 5-merous. Petals 5, hooded. Stamens 5. Disk 5-lobed. Ovary inferior. Fruit a 3-winged schizocarp, separating into 3 cocci.
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Gouania
Bejucos leñosos que trepan mediante zarcillos axilares, basales a las inflorescencias. Hojas alternas, simples, cartáceas o coriáceas, usualmente aserradas, pecioladas; estípulas pequeñas, persistentes. Flores bisexuales o con menos frecuencia unisexuales, actinomorfas, en espigas, racimos o panículas axilares o terminales; cáliz cónico a campanulado con 5 lóbulos; pétalos 5, amarillo-verdosos o blancuzcos, unguiculados, cóncavos; estambres 5, opuestos a los pétalos y usualmente encapuchados por éstos, los filamentos adnatos al margen del disco; disco crateriforme; ovario semi-ínfero, trilocular, tricarpelar, los lóculos uniovulados, los estigmas 3, reflexos. Fruto un esquizocarpo, trilocular, trialado, septicida que se divide en 3 mericarpos indehiscentes; semillas obovadas. Género pantropical con alrededor de 50 especies.
Gouania
Woody vines that climb by means of axillary tendrils, basal to the inflorescences. Leaves alternate, chartaceous or coriaceous, usually serrate; stipules small, persistent. Flowers bisexual or less frequently unisexual, actinomorphic, in axillary or terminal spikes, racemes, or panicles; calyx conical to campanulate, with 5 lobes; petals 5, greenish yellow or whitish, unguiculate, concave; stamens 5, as long as the petals, usually hooded by the petal, the filaments adnate to the margin of the disc; disc crateriform; ovary subinferior, trilocular, the locules uniovulate, the stigmas 3, reflexed. Fruit a schizocarp, trilocular, three-winged, septicidal, that separates into 3 indehiscent mericarps; seeds obovate. A pantropical genus of about 50 species.
Gouania is a genus of flowering plants in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae. The 50 to 70 species it contains are native to tropical and subtropical regions of the world, including Africa, Madagascar, the Indian Ocean islands, southern Asia, the Americas and Hawaii. They are shrubs or lianas. A revision of the species in Madagascar and the other western Indian Ocean islands is in preparation, where the genus has an important centre of diversity. The work will recognise several new species.
Selected species
- Gouania corylifolia Raddi (Brazil)
- Gouania hillebrandii Oliv. ex Hillebr. (Hawaii)
- Gouania leptostachya DC. (South Asia, Southeast Asia)
- Gouania longispicata (Central Africa)
- Gouania lupuloides (L.) Urb. – Chewstick or Toothbrush Tree (Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, northern South America)
- Gouania meyenii Steud. – Smoothfruit Chewstick (Hawaii)
- Gouania napalensis Wall. (India, Nepal)
- Gouania polygama (Jacq.) Urb. (Mexico, Central and South America)
- Gouania vitifolia A.Gray – Oʻahu Chewstick (Hawaii)[2][3]
References
- ^ "Genus: Gouania Jacq.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2004-02-10. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5114. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
- ^ "Gouania". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=28537. Retrieved 2010-03-08.
- ^ "GRIN Species Records of Gouania". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?5114. Retrieved 2009-10-17.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:37
Specimens with Sequences:48
Specimens with Barcodes:44
Species:8
Species With Barcodes:7
Public Records:13
Public Species:4
Public BINs:0