Eriolaena

Eriolaena is a genus of flowering plants. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included now in the recently expanded Malvaceae.^[2] The genus is distributed in Asia and eastern Africa, from southern China through Indochina to India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and coastal Mozambique.^[1][3][4]

Eriolaena
Eriolaena quinquelocularis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Dombeyoideae
Genus:	Eriolaena DC. (1823)[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Dendroleandria Arènes (1956) Eriochlaena (orth. var.) Helmiopsiella Arènes (1956) Helmiopsis H.Perrier (1945) Jackia Spreng. nom. illeg. Microchlaena Wall ex Wight & Arn. (1833), nom. superfl. Schillera Rchb. (1828) Wallichia DC. (1823) (non Roxb.: preoccupied)

These plants are trees or shrubs. They usually have single or paired white or yellow flowers, but some species have larger inflorescences. The fruit is a hard capsule with winged seeds.^[3] The winged seeds make the genus distinctive in its family.^[5]

The former Madagascan genera Helmiopsiella and Helmiopsis are now considered synonyms of Eriolaena.^[1] These genera were named in honour of C. Helm, German clergyman in Berlin and amateur botanist.^[6]

Species

27 species are currently accepted.^[1]

• Eriolaena barnettiae Dorr – Madagascar
• Eriolaena bernieri (Baill.) Dorr – northern Madagascar
• Eriolaena boivinii (Baill.) Dorr – northwestern Madagascar
• Eriolaena calcicola (Arènes) Dorr – northwestern Madagascar
• Eriolaena candollei Wall. – India and Bangladesh, Indochina, southern China
• Eriolaena cheekii Dorr – Madagascar
• Eriolaena ctenostegia (Hochr.) Dorr – western Madagascar
• Eriolaena glaberrima (Arènes) Dorr – northern Madagascar
• Eriolaena hily (Arènes) Dorr – southwestern and southern Madagascar
• Eriolaena hookeriana Wight & Arn. – India and Sri Lanka
• Eriolaena leandrii (Hochr.) Dorr – Madagascar
• Eriolaena linearifolia (Hochr.) Dorr – northern Madagascar
• Eriolaena lushingtonii Dunn – Eastern Ghats (southern India)
• Eriolaena madagascariensis (Arènes) Dorr – Madagascar
• Eriolaena margaritae Dorr – Madagascar
• Eriolaena parvifolia (Appleq.) Dorr – southwestern Madagascar
• Eriolaena poissonii (Arènes) Dorr – northwestern Madagascar
• Eriolaena polyandra (Appleq.) Dorr – northern Madagascar
• Eriolaena pseudopopulus (Baill.) Dorr – northern Madagascar
• Eriolaena quinquelocularis (Wight & Arn.) Drury – India and Yunnan (China)
• Eriolaena richardii (Baill.) Dorr – northern Madagascar
• Eriolaena rigida (Baill.) Dorr – Madagascar
• Eriolaena rulkensii^[4] Dorr – northern Mozambique
• Eriolaena spectabilis (DC.) Planch. ex Mast. – Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan), northern Myanmar, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi (China)
• Eriolaena sphaerocarpa (L.C.Barnett) Dorr – northern Madagascar
• Eriolaena stocksii Hook.f. & Thomson ex Mast. – western and northeastern India
• Eriolaena wallichii DC. – Nepal, Arunachal Pradesh (India), northern Myanmar, Yunnan (China)