Visnea | |
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Visnea mocanera | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Pentaphylacaceae |
Genus: |
Visnea L.f. (1782) |
Species: | V. mocanera
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Binomial name | |
Visnea mocanera L.f. (1782)
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Synonyms [2] [3] | |
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Visnea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in family Pentaphylacaceae. [4] The genus contains a single species, Visnea mocanera a tree native to the Canary Islands and Madeira. [2]
The fruits of the tree (known as Mocan) are edible. [5] [6]
The genus name of Visnea is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal. [7] The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782, and published in Suppl. Pl. on page 36. [2]
Note; Visnea Steud. ex Endl. is a synonym of Barbacenia, a genus in a different family. [8]
Four fossil seeds of a Visnea sp. have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark. [9]
Visnea | |
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Visnea mocanera | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Pentaphylacaceae |
Genus: |
Visnea L.f. (1782) |
Species: | V. mocanera
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Binomial name | |
Visnea mocanera L.f. (1782)
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Synonyms [2] [3] | |
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Visnea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in family Pentaphylacaceae. [4] The genus contains a single species, Visnea mocanera a tree native to the Canary Islands and Madeira. [2]
The fruits of the tree (known as Mocan) are edible. [5] [6]
The genus name of Visnea is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal. [7] The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782, and published in Suppl. Pl. on page 36. [2]
Note; Visnea Steud. ex Endl. is a synonym of Barbacenia, a genus in a different family. [8]
Four fossil seeds of a Visnea sp. have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark. [9]