Flindersia
Flindersia is a genus within the family of Rutaceae ( Rutaceae ). The genus was named after the leader of the expedition, on which the first species was discovered, Captain Matthew Flinders named.
Description
Flindersia species grow as small to large trees. They contain essential oils. The plant parts are smooth or me simple, scale-like or star-shaped hairs ( trichomes ) are covered. The change - to opposite arranged leaves are simple or compound. If they are put together, then they are paired and unpaired pinnate, with one to 16 pinnate leaves. The pinnate leaves are opposite or nearly so at the rachis. The leaf margin is smooth.
The flowers are borne in the upper leaf axils or terminally in paniculate inflorescences. The five petals are hermaphrodite, or functionally male and having a double perianth. The five sepals are free or fused only at their base. The five free petals overlap like roof tiles. In the hermaphrodite and male flowers only a circle (the outer stamen circle) with five fertile stamens and a circle with five staminodes is available. In the hermaphrodite flowers five carpels are fused into an ovary. The carpel are four to six ovules available.
Are formed more or less woody, fünffächerige capsule fruits. The brown seeds are winged.
Dissemination
The genus Flindersia comes mainly ( 14 species ) are only used in the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales, 11 are located there only. There are also species in the Moluccas, New Guinea and New Caledonia.
System
The genus Flindersia in 1814 by Robert Brown in General remarks, geographical and systematical, on the botany of Terra Australis. A Voyage to Terra Australis, 2, Appendix III, p 595, table 1 is set up. Type species is Flindersia australis R.Br.. Flindersia belongs to the subfamily of Flindersioideae in the rue family ( Rutaceae ). Synonyms for Flindersia R.Br. are: Strzeleckya F.Muell, Oxleya Hook..
The genus belongs to the subfamily Flindersia Flindersioideae within the family Rutaceae. It was formerly placed in the family Flindersiaceae CTWhite ex Airy Shaw.
There are about 13 to 16 Flindersia types:
- Flindersia acuminata C.T.White
- Flindersia amboinensis Poir.
- Flindersia australis R.Br.
- Flindersia bennettiana F.Muell. ex Benth.
- Flindersia bourjotiana F.Muell.
- Flindersia brassii T.G.Hartley & B.Hyland
- Flindersia brayleyana F.Muell.
- Flindersia collina F.M.Bailey
- Flindersia dissosperma ( F.Muell. ) Domin
- Flindersia ifflaiana F.Muell.
- Flindersia laevicarpa C.T.White & W.D.Francis
- Flindersia maculosa ( Lindl. ) Benth.
- Flindersia oppositifolia ( F.Muell. ) TGHartley & Jessup
- Flindersia pimenteliana F.Muell.
- Flindersia schottiana F.Muell.
- Flindersia xanthoxyla ( A.Cunn. Ex Hook. ) Domin
No longer belongs to the genus:
- Flindersia oppositifolia ( F.Muell. ) TGHartley & Jessup ⇒ Hypsophila oppositifolia F.Muell.
Pictures
Flindersia brayleyana:
Voucher specimen
Sapling
Forest inventory
Swell
- MF Porte agent: Flindersia in New South Wales Flora Online.
- Thomas Gordon Hartley: A revision of the genus Flindersia ( Rutaceae ), in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, Volume 50, Issue 4, 1969.
- Trevor Whiffin: Variation and Evolution in the Genus Flindersia ( Rutaceae ). I. Review of the genus, pp. 635-643 and II Review of methods for geographic variation analysis of volatile oil data, pp. 645-657. . in Australian Journal of Botany, Volume 30, Issue 6, 1982.