Fontanesia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Oleaceae |
Tribe: | Fontanesieae |
Genus: |
Fontanesia Labill. |
Species: | F. phillyreoides
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Binomial name | |
Fontanesia phillyreoides Labill.
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Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, usually treated as comprising a single species Fontanesia phillyreoides, though some authors split this into two species (see below). It is native to southern Europe ( Sicily), southwestern Asia ( Lebanon, Syria, Turkey) and eastern Asia ( China), with two well-separated populations. [1] [2] [3] [4]
It is a deciduous shrub growing to 8 m tall. The leaves are opposite, lanceolate to narrow ovate, 3–12 cm long and 8–26 mm broad, with an acute apex and a usually entire margin, sometimes finely serrated. The flowers are white, with a deeply four-lobed corolla; they are produced in panicles 2–6 cm long. The fruit is a flat samara, surrounded by a wing. [1]
There are two subspecies, [1] [2] [5] often treated in the past as separate species. [6] Despite the distance separating the two, the differences between them are minimal; the leaves of subsp. phillyreoides are sometimes cited as having finely serrated margins, but this character is not reliable. [6]
The species epithet was originally published erroneously as "philliraeoides", but this is a correctable error, because it refers to the genus Phillyrea.
Data related to Fontanesia at Wikispecies
Fontanesia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Oleaceae |
Tribe: | Fontanesieae |
Genus: |
Fontanesia Labill. |
Species: | F. phillyreoides
|
Binomial name | |
Fontanesia phillyreoides Labill.
|
Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, usually treated as comprising a single species Fontanesia phillyreoides, though some authors split this into two species (see below). It is native to southern Europe ( Sicily), southwestern Asia ( Lebanon, Syria, Turkey) and eastern Asia ( China), with two well-separated populations. [1] [2] [3] [4]
It is a deciduous shrub growing to 8 m tall. The leaves are opposite, lanceolate to narrow ovate, 3–12 cm long and 8–26 mm broad, with an acute apex and a usually entire margin, sometimes finely serrated. The flowers are white, with a deeply four-lobed corolla; they are produced in panicles 2–6 cm long. The fruit is a flat samara, surrounded by a wing. [1]
There are two subspecies, [1] [2] [5] often treated in the past as separate species. [6] Despite the distance separating the two, the differences between them are minimal; the leaves of subsp. phillyreoides are sometimes cited as having finely serrated margins, but this character is not reliable. [6]
The species epithet was originally published erroneously as "philliraeoides", but this is a correctable error, because it refers to the genus Phillyrea.
Data related to Fontanesia at Wikispecies