Biology:Pennantia

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Pennantia
Pennantiacorymbosa2.jpg
Pennantia corymbosa
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Pennantiaceae
J.Agardh[1]
Genus: Pennantia
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Type species
Pennantia corymbosa
J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Pennantia is the sole genus in the plant family Pennantiaceae. In older classifications, it was placed in the family Icacinaceae.[2] Most authorities have recognised three or four species, depending on whether they recognised Pennantia baylisiana as a separate species from Pennantia endlicheri.[3] British-born botanist David Mabberley has recognised two species.[4]

The species are small to medium, sometimes multi-trunked trees. Leaves are alternate, leathery, and with entire or sometimes toothed margins. Inflorescences are terminal and flowers are functionally unisexual; the species are more or less dioecious.[3]

Pennantia species grow naturally in New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and eastern Australia . In Australia, P. cunninghamii grows across a broad latitudinal natural range (nearly 3,000 km (1,900 mi)), from the south coast of New South Wales northwards through to north eastern Queensland.[citation needed]

The genus name, Pennantia, is in honor of Thomas Pennant, an 18th century Welsh zoologist and author.[citation needed]

Species

The following four species were recognised by New Zealand botanists Rhys O. Gardner and Peter J. de Lange in 2002.[3]

References

  1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x/pdf. Retrieved 2013-07-06. 
  2. Kårehed, Jesper (2003). "The family Pennantiaceae and its relationships to Apiales". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (1): 1–24. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.00110.x. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gardner, Rhys O.; de Lange, Peter J. (2002). "Revision of Pennantia (Icacinaceae), a small isolated genus of Southern Hemisphere trees". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 32 (4): 669–695. doi:10.1080/03014223.2002.9517715. 
  4. Mabberley, David J. (2008). Mabberley's Plant-Book (third ed.). UK: Cambridge University Press. 

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