Stauntonia
Japanese jam Tonie ( Stauntonia hexaphylla )
The storage Tonien ( Stauntonia ) are a genus of evergreen, twining shrubs from Asia. In Europe, the Japanese jam hypotension is rarely used as an ornamental plant.
Description
Storage Tonien are evergreen, twining shrubs with alternate leaves standing. The leaves have long petioles and are either palmately divided into three to nine leaflets or feathered into three leaflets. The leaflets are available on different long stems and are entire. The shrubs are dioecious, the flowers are in axillary clusters of a few to more than ten flowers. The three outer sepals are fleshy and wider than the three inner. It can be in the form of six petals inconspicuous, but may be absent. The female flowers have three ovary and reduced to staminodes stamens. The male flowers have six deformed stamens, petals and nectaries absent. The sepals are slightly smaller than in female flowers. As fruit ovoid, fleshy, juicy, seed -rich berries are formed.
Distribution and habitat requirements
Species of the genus are found in Asia from Myanmar to Taiwan and Japan.
System
The storage Tonien is a genus in the family of finger fruit plants ( Lardizabalaceae ). There they are of the tribe Lardizabaleae attributed in the subfamily Lardizabaloideae. The genus name honors the Stauntonia British physician and naturalist Sir George Leonard Staunton ( 1737-1801 ). The genus contains about 24 species, among other
- Stauntonia brachyanthera Hand. - Mazz.
- Stauntonia brunoniana Wall. ex Hemsl.
- Stauntonia cavalerieana Gagnep.
- Stauntonia chinensis DC.
- Stauntonia conspicua R. H. Chang
- Stauntonia duclouxii Gagnep.
- Stauntonia elliptica Hemsl.
- Stauntonia glauca Merr. & F. P. Metcalf
- Japanese Tonie jam or rose cup ( Stauntonia hexaphylla ( Thunb. ) Decne. )
- Stauntonia leucantha Y.C. Wu
- Stauntonia libera H.N. Qin
- Stauntonia maculata Merr.
- Stauntonia obcordatilimba C.Y. Wu & S.H. Huang
- Stauntonia obovata Hemsl.
- Stauntonia obovatifoliola Hayata Stauntonia obovatifoliola subsp. obovatifoliola
- Stauntonia obovatifoliola subsp. urophylla ( Hand. - Mazz. ) H.N. Qin
Use
The Japanese jam Tonie ( Stauntonia hexaphylla ) is used because of its decorative flowers and fruit of remarkable jewelry as an ornamental plant.