Terminalia L.

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Description:

Trees or shrubs, without scales or microscopic stalked glands. Leaves spirally arranged, often crowded in terminal rosettes, sometimes on short shoots. Flowers usually in axillary spikes with male flowers towards the apex, bisexual towards base. Male flowers stalked, bisexual sessile. Petals 0. Stamens usually 10, exserted. Ovary inferior. Fruit 2-winged (in ours).

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Syntype for Terminalia carolinensis Kaneh.
Catalog Number: US 1967077
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): R. Kanehira
Year Collected: 1931
Locality: Kosrae [Kusaie], Kosrae, Micronesia, Federated States of, Caroline Islands, Pacific Islands

  • Syntype: Kanehira, R. 1932. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo). 46: 672.
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IDnature guides:

Identification key for tree genera of Madagascar

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Statistics of barcoding coverage:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:241
Specimens with Sequences:215
Specimens with Barcodes:188
Species:47
Species With Barcodes:44
Public Records:69
Public Species:29
Public BINs:0

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Statistics of barcoding coverage: Terminalia sp.:

Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 2
Species With Barcodes: 1

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Barcode data:

Access Published & Released Data: Download FASTA File

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Terminalia (plant):

Terminalia is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising around 100 species distributed in tropical regions of the world. This genus gets it name from Latin terminus, referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.



Chemistry[edit]

Trees of this genus are known especially as a source of secondary metabolites, e.g. cyclic triterpenes and their derivatives, flavonoids, tannins, and other aromatics.[citation needed]

Selected species[edit]


Terminalia argentea flowers


Terminalia catappa flowers with a Hoverfly- a close up

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Genus: Terminalia L.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
  2. ^ a b "GRIN Species Records of Terminalia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
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Terminalia carolinensis:

Terminalia carolinensis, commonly known as the ka tree or keima tree, is a tree that grows on the Micronesian islands of Kosrae and Pohnpei. The trees have umbrella shaped crowns and mossy buttressed bases.[1] The trees are found in the Yela Forest.[1] Known as Keima on Pohnpei and Ka on Kosrae, it is used for timber, canoe manufacture, cabinetry, flooring, for medicine and for its edible nuts.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Nature Conservancy February/ March 2015 page 36
  2. ^ Terminalia carolinesis - Combretaceae People and Plants of Micronesia

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