Deherainia

Deherainia smaragdina

The Deherainia are a genus of the subfamily Theophrastoideae. The genus is named after the French scientist Pierre -Paul Deherain.

Description

Deherainia are shrubs or small trees. The leaves are medium in size and entire.

The inflorescence is a terminal raceme of single to a few flowers. The flowers are hermaphroditic and fünfzählig, the crown is wide bell - shaped to urn and green. The appendage of the crown are lanceolate - ovate or vice versa, the stamens are united at the base, the anthers blunt - triangular.

The fruit is egg-shaped, tapering towards the tip, the pericarp is thin and knitterig.

Dissemination

The genus is native of eastern Mexico to Honduras and Costa Rica.

System

The genus contains three species, a fourth from Cuba was placed in a separate genus, Neomezia.

• Deherainia lageniformis Gómez -Laur. & N.Zamora - Costa Rica
• Deherainia matudae Lundell - Southern Mexico to Guatemala
• Deherainia smaragdina ( Linden ) Decne. - Southern Mexico to Belize and Honduras

Evidence

• B. Steel: Theophrastaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Volume 6: Flowering Plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-06512-1, pp. 472-478, doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).