Adolphia californica

Adolphia californica is a species of the comprehensive only 1 to 2 types Adolphia genus in the family of the buckthorn family ( Rhamnaceae ). It is native to western North America.

Description

Adolphia californica are nearly leafless, up to 3 meters tall plants. From the respective first eye of a node to an engine or a composite inflorescence, from the then following a sting forms.

The hairy flowers are in three to siebenblütigen cymes. The bell-shaped flower cups outlasted the fruit of time, with his lower part intergrown Diskus is unremarkable. Unlike many genera of the family petals are available. The stamens are toward the outer end knee- shaped, the dust bag vierfächrig. The ovary is semi- inferior and dreifächrig. The fruits are explosive capsules.

Dissemination

Adolphia californica is native to southwestern North America. Its distribution area is located in Lower California and the U.S. state of California, where the plant occurs in a northerly direction as far as San Diego.

System

The genus was first described in 1837 by Carl Daniel Friedrich Meisner; he described as a kind of Adolphia infesta. The description of the nature Adolphia californica gave Sereno Watson in 1876. Within the buckthorn plants Adolphia californica is classified in the tribe Colletieae.

Evidence

• Rhamnaceae
• Buckthorn plants