Phoebe (plant)

Phoebe formosana

Phoebe is a plant genus of the laurel family ( Lauraceae ). The botanical genus name is derived from the Greek word Phoebe φοιβος Phoebus, which means " bright, pure" or " the Light, the Bright " means. The Chinese species have in the national language the trivial names楠 属"nan shu ".

Description

Phoebe species are evergreen shrubs or trees. The change-constant leaves are pinnately.

The flowers are grouped in branched inflorescences. The hermaphrodite flowers have only a circle with six bloom cladding. The bloom are all the same, or the outer ones are slightly shorter than the inner. After the fading bloom leathery or woody. There are three circles, each provided with three fertile stamens; the outer two circles without, the inner with two glands. There are also staminodes present. The ovary is oval to spherical. The scar is capitate or bowl -shaped.

The coated of the larger bloom cladding fruits are usually oval to spherical.

Systematics and distribution

They are widespread in tropical and subtropical Asia. 35 species occur in China, of which 27 are just there.

The first description of the genus Phoebe was in 1836 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in Systema Laurinarum, p 98 type species is Phoebe lanceolata ( Nees ) Nees.

There are about 100 species in the genus Phoebe (selection):

  • Phoebe angustifolia Meisner: The range extends from southeastern Yunnan, Myanmar and India to Vietnam.
  • Phoebe attenuata ( Nees ) Nees
  • Phoebe bournei ( Hemsl. ) Y.C.Yang
  • Phoebe brachythyrsa HWLi: It grows in thickets of lowland hills in northeastern Yunnan.
  • Phoebe calcarea SKLee & FNWei: It thrives in mixed laurel forests on limestone hills in the provinces of Guangxi and southern Guizhou.
  • Phoebe chekiangensis C.B.Shang
  • Phoebe chinensis Chun
  • Phoebe crassipedicella SKLee & FNWei: It thrives in mixed laurel forests on limestone hills in the provinces of Guangxi and southern Guizhou.
  • Phoebe faberi ( Hemsl. ) Chun
  • Phoebe formosana ( Hayata ) Hayata: History: China and Taiwan
  • Phoebe forrestii W.W.Smith
  • Phoebe glaucifolia S.K.Lee & F.N.Wei
  • Phoebe glaucophylla HWLi: It grows in mixed forests on limestone hills at altitudes between 900 and 1200 meters in the south-eastern Yunnan.
  • Phoebe hainanensis Merrill: This rare species grows in mixed forests only in Hainan.
  • Phoebe Hui W.C.Cheng ex YenC.Yang
  • Phoebe hunanensis Hand. - Mazz.
  • Phoebe hungmaoensis S. Lee
  • Phoebe kwangsiensis H.Liu: This rare species grows in mixed forests along rivers on limestone hills at altitudes between 700 and 1000 meters in the north-western and south-western Guangxi Guizhou.
  • Phoebe lanceolata ( Nees ) Nees
  • Phoebe put three Lecomte
  • Phoebe lichuanensis SKLee: It only grows in mixed forests in mountain valleys at altitudes of about 700 meters in the south-western Hubei.
  • Phoebe macrocarpa C.Y.Wu
  • Phoebe megacalyx H.W.Li
  • Phoebe microphylla HWLi: It only grows in open forests in mountain valleys at altitudes 400-1800 m in the southeastern Yunnan.
  • Phoebe minutiflora H.W.Li
  • Phoebe motuonan S.K.Lee & F.N.Wei
  • Phoebe neurantha ( Hemsl. ) Gamble
  • Phoebe neuranthoides S.K.Lee & F.N.Wei
  • Phoebe nigrifolia S.K.Lee & F.N.Wei
  • Phoebe pallida ( Nees ) Nees
  • Phoebe puwenensis Cheng
  • Phoebe rufescens H.W.Li
  • Phoebe sheareri ( Hemsl. ) Gamble
  • Phoebe tavoyana ( Meissn. ) Hook. f
  • Phoebe yaiensis S.K.Lee
  • Phoebe yunnanensis H.W.Li
  • Phoebe zhennan S. Lee & F.N.Wei

Today only Asian species belong to this genus. No longer belongs to the genus, for example:

  • Phoebe elongata Nees → Cinnamomum elongatum ( Nees ) Kosterm.
  • Phoebe mexicana Meisn. → Cinnamodendron cinnamomifolium ( Kunth ) Kosterm.
  • Phoebe nanmu ( Oliv. ) Gamble → Machilus nanmu ( Oliv. ) Hemsl. or Persea nanmu Oliv.
  • Phoebe porosa ( Nees & Mart. ) Mez → Ocotea porosa ( Nees & Mart. ) Barroso
  • Phoebe porphyria ( Griseb. ) Mez → Cinnamomum Porphyrium ( Griseb. ) Kosterm.

Swell

  • Fa - Nan Wei & Henk van der Werff: Phoebe in the Flora of China, Volume 7, page 189: Online.
  • Walter Erhardt et al: The big walleye. Encyclopedia of plant names. Volume 2, page 1623rd Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
  • Lauraceae
  • Lauraceae
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