Gymnosporia
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Trees or shrubs, usually armed with spines or spiny branchlets. Stipules free, small, caducous or 0. Leaves alternate or fasciculate (on short shoots). Flowers in cymes, usually functionally unisexual. Sepals 5(-6). Petals 5(-6), white, cream to greenish-yellow. Disk intrastaminal, single, convex to shallowly concave, entire or shallowly (4-)5-10(-12)-lobed or angled. Ovary superior. Stigma 2-3(-4)-branched. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, without outgrowths. Seeds 1-6(-8), glossy, red-brown, ± surrounded by a yellow, or more rarely a white or purple, aril.
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Gymnosporia is a Old World genus of plants, that comprise suffrutices, shrubs and trees.[1] It was formerly considered congeneric with Maytenus, but more recent investigations separated it based on the presence of achyblasts (truncated branchlets) and spines, alternate leaves or fascicles of leaves, an inflorescence that forms a dichasium, mostly unisexual flowers, and fruit forming a dehiscent capsule, with an aril on the seed.[1]
Range[edit]
The genus occurs in all of Africa, Madagascar and adjacent islands, southern Spain, the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, southern China, Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands, Malesia, and in Queensland, Australia.[1] In the Afrotropical region the two main centers of diversity are in the south and the northeast.
Species[edit]
The genus includes some 102 species:[2]
- G. addat Loes.
- G. alaternifolia (Tul.) Loes.
- G. annobonensis Loes. & Mildbr.
- G. arbutifolia (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Loes.
- G. arenicola Jordaan
- G. bachmannii Loes.
- G. bailadillana V.Naray. & Mooney
- G. berberoides W.W.Sm.
- G. bonii Pit.
- G. brachystachya Baker
- G. buchananii Loes.
- G. bureaviana Loes.
- G. buxifolia (L.) Szyszył.
- G. capitata (E.Mey. ex Sond.) Loes.
- G. cassinoides (L'Hér.) Masf.
- G. championii Dunn
- G. chevalieri Tardieu
- G. commiphoroides H.Perrier
- G. cortii Pic.Serm.
- G. crassifolia Pit.
- G. crenata (G.Forst.) Seem.
- G. cryptopetala Reyes-Bet. & A.Santos
- G. curtisii King – Thailand and Malaysia
- G. devenishii Jordaan
- G. dhofarensis (Sebsebe) Jordaan
- G. diversifolia Maxim. – China, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands and N Philippines
- G. drakeana Loes.
- G. drummondii (N.Robson & Sebsebe) Jordaan
- G. elliptica (Thunb.) Schönland
- G. emarginata (Willd.) Thwaites – India and Sri Lanka
- G. falconeri M.A.Lawson
- G. forsskaoliana (Sebsebe) Jordaan
- G. fournieri (Pancher & Sebert) Loes.
- G. gariepensis Jordaan
- G. glaucophylla Jordaan
- G. graciliramula (S.J.Pei & Y.H.Li) Q.R.Liu & Funston
- G. gracilis Loes.
- G. grandifolia (Davison) Jordaan
- G. gurueensis (N.Robson) Jordaan
- G. hainanensis Merr. & Chun
- G. harenensis (Sebsebe) Jordaan
- G. harlandii Hance
- G. harveyana Loes.
- G. hemipterocarpa Jordaan
- G. heterophylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Loes.
- G. variabilis (Hemsl.) Loes.
- G. vitiensis (A.Gray) Seem. – Polynesian Islands
- G. wallichiana M.A.Lawson
- G. wightiana (Babu) R.S.Rao
- G. woodii Szyszył.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Marie Prins; van Wyk, A. E. (2003). "Reinstatement of Gymnosporia (Celastraceae): implications for the Flora Malesiana region". Telopea 10 (1): 155–167. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help);
|accessdate=requires|url=(help) - ^ "Gymnosporia". The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
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