Perrottetia Explained

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

Taxonomy

This genus was previously placed in the staff vine family Celastraceae, 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] [6]}

• Perrottetia alpestris - insular Southeast Asia, Papuasia, Queensland
  • • • • subsp. moluccana subsp. philippinensis Perrottetia arisanensis - Yunnan, Taiwan
• Perrottetia caliensis - Colombia
• Perrottetia calva - Colombia
• Perrottetia colorata - Colombia
• Perrottetia distichophylla - Colombia
• Perrottetia excelsa - Panama
• Perrottetia gentryi - Colombia, Peru, Bolivia
• Perrottetia guacharana - Colombia
• Perrottetia lanceolata - Venezuela
• Perrottetia longistylis - S Mexico, Central America
• Perrottetia maxima - Colombia
• Perrottetia multiflora - from Costa Rica to Peru
• Perrottetia ovata - C + S Mexico
• Perrottetia quinduensis - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia
• Perrottetia racemosa ^[7] - S China
• Perrottetia sandwicensis – Olomea^[8] or Waimea^[9] - Hawaii
• Perrottetia sessiliflora - Chiapas, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• Perrottetia simplicissima - Colombia

Notes and References

1. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40004997 Tropicos, Perrottetia Kunth
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7735#page/79/mode/1up 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.
3. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=378261 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
4. Web site: Extant Seed Plants/Spermatophyta . Angiosperm Phylogeny Website . Missouri Botanical Garden . 2010-10-03.
5. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200012836 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.
6. Web site: Perrottetia . . 2014-06-03 .
7. Web site: GRIN Species Records of Perrottetia . Germplasm Resources Information Network . United States Department of Agriculture . 2010-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924124141/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?9137 . 2015-09-24 . dead .
8. Web site: Olomea Perrottetia sandwicensis Gray . Elbert L. . Little Jr. . Roger G. Skolmen . Common Forest Trees of Hawaii (Native and Introduced) . United States Forest Service . 1989 . 2010-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170809065032/https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/forestry/trees/CommonTreesHI/CFT_Perrottetia_sandwicensis.pdf . 2017-08-09 . dead .
9. Web site: Hawaiian-English Dictionary. University of Hawaii Press. 2003. 2011-10-12. https://archive.today/20121214175313/http://wehewehe.olelo.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/hdict?e=q-0hdict--00-0-0--010---4----den--0-000lpm--1haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-waimea--00031-0000escapewin-00&d=&l=en. 2012-12-14. dead.