Perrottetia

This article is about the flowering plant genus. For the gastropod genus, see Perrottetia (gastropod).

Perrottetia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Dipentodontaceae described in 1824.^[2][1][4] Species occur in China, Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Hawaii, Australia, and Latin America.^[3][5][6] It is the largest genus of the recently described order Huerteales.

Perrottetia
Perrottetia sandwicensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Huerteales
Family:	Dipentodontaceae
Genus:	Perrottetia Kunth
Type species
Perrottetia quinduensis Kunth[1]
Synonyms[2][3]
Caryospermum Blume

Taxonomy

This genus was previously placed in the staff vine family Celastraceae,^[2] but molecular evidence has shown that it not related and better placed with Dipentodon in a separate family Dipentodontaceae.

Species and subspecies

accepted taxa^[3][7]

• Perrottetia alpestris (Blume) Loes. - insular Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Queensland
  • subsp. moluccana (Blume) Ding Hou
  • subsp. philippinensis (S.Vidal) Ding Hou
• Perrottetia arisanensis Hayata - Yunnan, Taiwan
• Perrottetia caliensis Cuatrec. - Colombia
• Perrottetia calva Cuatrec. - Colombia
• Perrottetia colorata R.Sánchez & Fern.Alonso - Colombia
• Perrottetia distichophylla Cuatrec. - Colombia
• Perrottetia excelsa Lundell - Panama
• Perrottetia gentryi Lundell - Colombia, Peru, Bolivia
• Perrottetia guacharana R.Sánchez & Fern.Alonso - Colombia
• Perrottetia lanceolata H.Karst. - Venezuela
• Perrottetia longistylis Rose - S Mexico, Central America
• Perrottetia maxima Cuatrec. - Colombia
• Perrottetia multiflora Lundell - from Costa Rica to Peru
• Perrottetia ovata Hemsl. - C + S Mexico
• Perrottetia quinduensis Kunth - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia
• Perrottetia racemosa (Oliv.) Loes.^[8] - S China
• Perrottetia sandwicensis A.Gray – Olomea^[9] or Waimea^[10] - Hawaii
• Perrottetia sessiliflora Lundell - Chiapas, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• Perrottetia simplicissima R.Sánchez & Fern.Alonso - Colombia

References

1. Tropicos, Perrottetia Kunth
2. "Genus: Perrottetia Kunth". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-01-25. Archived from the original on 2012-10-07. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
3. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. Kunth, Karl Sigismund. 1824. Nova genera et species plantarum :quas in peregrinatione ad plagam aequinoctialem orbis novi collegerunt /descripserunt, partim adumbraverunt (quarto ed.) 7: 73–75, pl. 622. in Latin
5. "Extant Seed Plants/Spermatophyta". Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
6. Flora of China Vol. 11 Page 495 核子木 he zi mu Perrottetia racemosa (Oliver) Loesener in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. 1: 224. 1897.
7. "Perrottetia". The Plant List. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
8. "GRIN Species Records of Perrottetia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
9. Little Jr., Elbert L.; Roger G. Skolmen (1989). "Olomea Perrottetia sandwicensis Gray" (PDF). Common Forest Trees of Hawaii (Native and Introduced). United States Forest Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2010-10-03.
10. "Hawaiian-English Dictionary". University of Hawaii Press. 2003. Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2011-10-12.

External links

Media related to Perrottetia at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Perrottetia at Wikispecies