Biology:Peltanthera

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Peltanthera
Loganiaceae spp EP-IV2-025.png
Polypremum/Peltanthera spp.

A-C. Polypremum procumbens: A. Habitus. B/C. Flower. D-G. Peltanthera floribunda: D. Flower. E. Ovary. F/G. Anthers

Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
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Order:
Family:
incertae sedis[1]
Genus:
Peltanthera

Benth.
Species:
P. floribunda
Binomial name
Peltanthera floribunda
Benth.
Synonyms[2]
  • Peltanthera costaricensis (Standl. & Steyerm.) Cuatrec.
  • Valerioa costaricensis Standl. & Steyerm.

Peltanthera is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species, Peltanthera floribunda. The genus was originally placed in family Loganiaceae[3] and has since been variously placed in Buddlejaceae,[4] Scrophulariaceae,[5] Gesneriaceae,[6] or in its own family Peltantheraceae.[5][7] As of 2016, it is considered by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to be unplaced in any family, but within the order Lamiales,[1] while Christenhusz et al (2017) placed it in family Gesneriaceae as subfamily Peltantheroideae.[8]

The plant is a tree with opposite leaf arrangement.[3] The leaves are large and elliptic in shape. It has white fragrant flowers in a cymose inflorescence with trichotomous branches. The calyx and corolla each have five lobes, and there are five stamens. The two locules of the ovary each contain many seeds.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181 (1): 1–20, doi:10.1111/boj.12385 
  2. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro-19000361. Retrieved 28 March 2015. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Bentham, George; Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Genera Plantarum, 2, Reeve & Co., p. 797, http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=5563 
  4. The International Plant Names Index, http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=25110-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvPlantNameSearch.do%3Ffind_infragenus%3D%26find_isAPNIRecord%3Dtrue%26find_geoUnit%3D%26find_includePublicationAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_addedSince%3D%26find_family%3D%26find_genus%3DPeltanthera%26find_sortByFamily%3Dtrue%26find_isGCIRecord%3Dtrue%26find_infrafamily%3D%26find_rankToReturn%3Dall%26find_publicationTitle%3D%26find_authorAbbrev%3D%26find_infraspecies%3D%26find_includeBasionymAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_modifiedSince%3D%26find_isIKRecord%3Dtrue%26find_species%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal, retrieved 28 March 2015 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Tropicos.org, http://tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?name=Peltanthera&commonname=, retrieved 28 March 2015 
  6. ITIS, https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=828072, retrieved 28 March 2015 
  7. Eduardo Antonio Molinari-Novoa (2016), Two New Lamiid Families For The Americas, 1, pp. 1–4, http://weberbauerella.org/2016/2016Weberb1_7.pdf, retrieved 2016-05-17 
  8. Christenhusz, Maarten J.M.; Fay, Michael F.; Chase, Mark W. (2017). Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants. Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK: Kew Publishing and The University of Chicago Press. pp. 548–551. ISBN 9781842466360. 

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