Naucleeae

Flower heads of Sarcocephalus latifolius, photographed by Scamperdale.


Belongs within: Cinchonoideae.

The Naucleeae are a pantropical clade in the plant family Rubiaceae, though the greater part of their diversity are found in Africa and Asia with only a few Neotropical species. Razafimandimbision & Bremer (2001) diagnosed Naucleeae on the basis of their globose spherical heads and floral nectaries embedded in the hypanthia, as well as supporting the clade by molecular analysis. Members include the genus Cephalanthus, a pantropical group of shrubs and small trees that differ from other members of the clade in having ovules solitary in each cell and arillate seeds (Razafimandimbison & Bremer 2001).

Characters (from Razafimandimbison & Bremer 2001): Trees, shrubs, rarely lianas. Raphides absent. Terminal vegetative buds conical, flattened or pyramidal. Leaves mostly opposite, rarely whorled; stipules interpetiolar, rarely intrapetiolar, caducous, rarely persistent, entire. Inflorescences terminal, lateral, or both lateral and terminal, congested into spherical heads. Flowers 4-5(-6)-merous; corolla aestivation imbricate or valvate; floral nectaries present, inconspicuous, embedded in hypanthia and ovaries. Stamens with filaments shorter than anthers; anthers mostly basifixed, rarely medifixed. Ovary bilocular, placentas attached to base, one third, middle, upper third, or apex of septa, with one to numerous predominantly imbricately pendulous, or ascendent ovules in each locule. Fruits mostly free, sometimes fused into multiple, succulent fruits; capsular fruits dehiscing loculicidally, septicidally, or both, mostly from base, rarely from top. Seeds winged or not; exotestal cells with thickenings along inner tangential wall. Secondary pollen presentation present, with pollen deposited on immature stigmatic lobes. Pollen tricolporate.

<==Naucleeae [Naucleaceae, Naucleoideae]
    |--Cephalanthus [Cephalantheae] RB01
    |    |--C. glabratus RB01
    |    |--C. natalensis RB01
    |    |--C. occidentalis RB01
    |    |    |--C. o. var. occidentalis H93
    |    |    `--C. o. var. californicus H93
    |    `--C. pusillus JD05
    `--+--+--Uncaria RB01
       |  |    |--U. gambir P88
       |  |    |--U. guianensis RB01
       |  |    |--U. phillipinensis RB01
       |  |    `--U. rhynchophylla RB01
       |  `--+--Pausinystalia johimbe RB01
       |     `--Corynanthe RB01
       |          |--C. mayumbensis RB01
       |          `--C. pachyceras RB01
       |--+--Hallea RB01
       |  |    |--H. rubrostipulata RB01 [=Mitragyna rubrostipulata BJ99]
       |  |    `--H. stipulosa RB01
       |  `--Mitragyna RB01
       |       |--M. ciliata S00
       |       |--M. diversifolia RB01
       |       |--M. inermis RB01
       |       |--M. parvifolia P03
       |       |--M. rotundifolia RB01
       |       `--M. speciosa RB01
       `--+--+--Neolamarckia [Neolamarckiinae] RB01
          |  |    `--N. cadamba RB01
          |  `--Naucleinae RB01
          |       |  i. s.: Ochreinauclea maingayi RB01
          |       |--Burttdavya nyassica RB01
          |       `--+--Sarcocephalus [Sarcocephaleae, Sarcocephalinae] RB01
          |          |    |--S. coadunata C78
          |          |    |--S. latifolius RB01
          |          |    `--S. pobeguinii RB01
          |          `--Nauclea RB01
          |               |  i. s.: N. latifolia FGN07
          |               |--+--N. diderrichii RB01
          |               |  `--N. xanthoxylon RB01
          |               `--+--N. orientalis RB01
          |                  `--N. subdita RB01
          `--Adininae RB01
               |  i. s.: Sinoadina RB01
               |         Diyaminauclea RB01
               |         Khasiaclunea RB01
               |         Ludekia borneensis RB01
               |--+--Adina RB01
               |  |    |--A. cordifolia J07
               |  |    `--A. rubella RB01
               |  `--+--+--Adinauclea fagifolia RB01
               |     |  `--Haldina cordifolia RB01
               |     `--+--Pertusadina eurhynca RB01
               |        `--+--Metadina trichotoma RB01
               |           `--Neonauclea RB01
               |                |  i. s.: N. calycina K03
               |                |         N. forsteri HSS13
               |                |         N. gigantea FJ99
               |                |--N. longipedunculata RB01
               |                `--+--N. clemensii RB01
               |                   `--Myrmeconauclea strigosa RB01
               `--+--Breonadia salicina RB01
                  `--+--+--Janotia macrostipula RB01
                     |  `--Gyrostipula RB01
                     |       |--G. comoriensis RB01
                     |       `--G. foveolata RB01
                     `--+--Neobreonia decaryana RB01
                        `--Breonia RB01
                             |  i. s.: B. capuronii RB01
                             |         B. decaryana RB01
                             |         B. fragifera RB01
                             |         B. sphaerantha RB01
                             |         B. stipulata RB01
                             |         B. taolagnaroensis RB01
                             |--B. macrocarpa RB01
                             `--+--B. chinensis RB01
                                `--B. havilandiana RB01

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

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[FJ99] Fiala, B., A. Jakob, U. Maschwitz & K. E. Linsenmair. 1999. Diversity, evolutionary specialization and geographic distribution of a mutualistic ant-plant complex: Macaranga and Crematogaster in South East Asia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 66: 305–331.

[FGN07] Fontaine, B., O. Gargominy & E. Neubert. 2007. Land snail diversity of the savanna/forest mosaic in Lopé National Park, Gabon. Malacologia 49 (2): 313–338.

[H93] Hickman, J. C. (ed.) 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press: Berkeley (California).

[HSS13] Hirschfeld, E., A. Swash & R. Still. 2013. The World's Rarest Birds. Princeton University Press: Princeton (New Jersey).

[J07] Jadhav, D. 2007. Ethno-medicinal plants used by Bhil tribe of Matrunda, district Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh, India. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49: 203–206.

[JD05] Junge, F. W., M. Dolezych, H. Walther, T. Böttger, A. Kühl, L. Kunzmann, P. Morgenstern, T. Steinberg & R. Stange. 2005. Ein Fenster in Landschaft und Vegetation vor 37 Millionen Jahren: Lithologische, sedimentgeochemische und paläobotanische Befunde aus einem Paläoflusssystem des Weißelsterbeckens. Mauritiana 19 (2): 185–273.

[K03] Kulip, J. 2003. An ethnobotanical survey of medicinal and other useful plants of Muruts in Sabah, Malaysia. Telopea 10 (1): 81–98.

[P03] Paul, T. K. 2003. Botanical observations on the Purulia pumped storage hydropower project area, Bagmundi Hills, Purulia district, West Bengal. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 45: 121–142.

[P88] Polunin, I. 1988. Plants and Flowers of Malaysia. Times Editions: Singapore.

[RB01] Razafimandimbison, S. G., & B. Bremer. 2001. Tribal delimitation of Naucleeae (Cinchonoideae, Rubiaceae): inference from molecular and morphological data. Systematics and Geography of Plants 71: 515–538.

[S00] Siddiqi, M. R. 2000. Tylenchida: Parasites of plants and insects 2nd ed. CABI Publishing: Wallingford (UK).

Last updated: 4 January 2019.

Ericales

Kiwifruit Actinidia deliciosa, from here.


Belongs within: Gunneridae.
Contains: Symplocaceae, Impatiens, Sapotales, Polemoniaceae, Primulales, Lecythidaceae, Theaceae, Styracaceae, Ericaceae.

The Ericales are a large clade of flowering plants primarily supported by molecular data, one of the most basal branches within the clade Asteridae. Members of the Ericales are significant members of the tropical understory. Noteworthy members of the Ericales include the Actinidiaceae, a group of woody vines, trees and shrubs with simple, spiral leaves including the kiwifruit or Chinese gooseberry Actinidia deliciosa, grown commercially for its fruit. Marcgravia is a Neotropical genus of climbers in which the bat-pollinated flowers are born in umbellate clusters with the central flowers abortive and possessing pendulous, pitcher-shaped bracts filled with nectar. The Sarraceniaceae are a group of carnivorous plants found in North and South America whose elongate, tubular leaves form fluid-filled pitchers for the capture and digestion of insects.

Synapomorphies (from the Angiosperm Phylogeny Website): Nonhydrolysable tannins, triterpenoids including saponins present; vessel elements with simple perforation plates; nodes 1:1; leaf vascular bundles collateral; leaves spiral, teeth with single vein and opaque deciduous cap; duplication of the PI gene.

<==Ericales [Clethrineae, Theineae]
    |--+--Impatiens K01
    |  `--Marcgraviaceae H11
    |       |--Souroubea guianensis H11
    |       |--Ruyschioxylon sumatrense Hoffmann 1884 CBH93
    |       `--Marcgravia K01
    |            |--M. oligandra J87
    |            |--M. rectiflora J87
    |            `--M. sintenisii SWK87
    `--+--Sapotales K01
       `--+--+--+--Polemoniaceae K01
          |  |  `--Primulales K01
          |  `--+--Lecythidaceae K01
          |     `--Eurya K01
          |          |--E. acuminata D07
          |          |--E. emarginata MH98
          |          `--E. japonica MH98
          `--+--+--Theaceae K01
             |  `--Styracaceae K01
             `--+--+--Sarraceniaceae [Sarraceniineae] H03
                |  |    |--Heliamphora T00
                |  |    |--Darlingtonia californica H93
                |  |    `--Sarracenia T00
                |  |         |--S. alabamensis D81
                |  |         |--S. purpurea MCR04
                |  |         |--S. rubra H93
                |  |         `--S. sledgei S81
                |  `--Actinidiaceae KJ02
                |       |--Parasaurauia T00
                |       |--Saurauia [Saurauioideae] T00
                |       |--Clematoclethra [Clematoclethroideae] T00
                |       |--Actinidioxylon princeps (Ludwig) Müller-Stoll & Mädel-Angeliewa 1969 CBH93
                |       `--Actinidia [Actinidioideae] KJ02
                |            |--A. arguta JK80
                |            |--A. chinensis KJ02
                |            |--A. deliciosa PF02
                |            `--A. strigosa SN88
                `--+--Clethraceae KJ02
                   |    |--Clethraecarpum asepalum Menzel 1914 CBH93
                   |    |--Junia Adans. 1763 KC01
                   |    `--Clethra KJ02
                   |         |--C. acuminata JK80
                   |         |--C. alnifolia KJ02
                   |         |--C. arborea JK80
                   |         |--C. tinifolia C55
                   |         `--C. tomentosa JK80
                   `--+--+--Ericaceae KJ02
                      |  `--Roridula [Roridulaceae] H03
                      |       |--R. dentata H03
                      |       `--R. gorgonias H03
                      `--Cyrillaceae KJ02
                           |--Cyrilla racemiflora KJ02
                           |--Purdiaea T00
                           |--Epacridicarpum colwellense JD05
                           |--Pirocarpella aquisgranensis JD05
                           `--Cyrilloxylon europaeum van der Burgh 1964 CBH93

Ericales incertae sedis:
  Mitrastema [Mitrastemaceae, Mitrastemonaceae] BL04
    `--M. yamamotoi BL04
  Tetrameristaceae T00
    |--Pentamerista T00
    `--Tetramerista T00
  Pellicieraceae T00
    |  i. s.: ‘Verrutricolporites’ crassus Fuchs 1970 CBH93
    `--Pelliciera rhizophorae HSS13
  Symplocaceae T00
  Pentaphylacaceae T00
    |--Pentaphylax T00
    `--Allericarpus CBH93
  Fouquieria T00 [incl. Idria T00; Fouquieriaceae APG16, Fouquieriales]
    `--F. splendens OB11
  Sladeniaceae [Sladenioideae] APG16
  Diapensia KJ02 [Diapensiaceae APG16, Diapensiales]
    |--D. himalaica O88
    `--D. lapponica KJ02
  Valvaecarpus CBH93

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[APG16] Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181: 1–20.

[BL04] Barkman, T. J., S.-H. Lim, K. M. Salleh & J. Nais. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA sequences reveal the photosynthetic relatives of Rafflesia, the world’s largest flower. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101 (3): 787–792.

[C55] Candolle, A. de. 1855. Géographie Botanique Raisonée: Ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l’époque actuelle vol. 2. Librairie de Victor Masson: Paris.

[CBH93] Collinson, M. E., M. C. Boulter & P. L. Holmes. 1993. Magnoliophyta (‘Angiospermae’). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 809–841. Chapman & Hall: London.

[D07] Dash, S. S. 2007. Useful plants of Kabi Sacred Grove, Sikkim. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49: 79–88.

[D81] Day, D. 1981. The Doomsday Book of Animals: A unique natural history of three hundred vanished species. Ebury Press: London.

[H03] Heads, M. 2003. Ericaceae in Malesia: vicariance biogeography, terrane tectonics and ecology. Telopea 10 (1): 311–449.

[H93] Hickman, J. C. (ed.) 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press: Berkeley (California).

[H11] Hilty, S. L. 2011. Family Thraupidae (tanagers). In: Hoyo, J. del, A. Elliott & D. A. Christie (eds) Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 16. Tanagers to New World Blackbirds pp. 46–329. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona.

[HSS13] Hirschfeld, E., A. Swash & R. Still. 2013. The World's Rarest Birds. Princeton University Press: Princeton (New Jersey).

[JK80] John, J., & K.-P. Kolbe. 1980. The systematic position of the “Theales” from the viewpoint of serology. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 8: 241–248.

[J87] Judd, W. S. 1987. Floristic study of Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya National Parks, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum—Biological Sciences 32 (1): 1–136.

[JD05] Junge, F. W., M. Dolezych, H. Walther, T. Böttger, A. Kühl, L. Kunzmann, P. Morgenstern, T. Steinberg & R. Stange. 2005. Ein Fenster in Landschaft und Vegetation vor 37 Millionen Jahren: Lithologische, sedimentgeochemische und paläobotanische Befunde aus einem Paläoflusssystem des Weißelsterbeckens. Mauritiana 19 (2): 185–273.

[K01] Kårehed, J. 2001. Multiple origin of the tropical forest tree family Icacinaceae. American Journal of Botany 88 (12): 2259–2274.

[KC01] Kirk, P. M., P. F. Cannon, J. C. David & J. A. Stalpers. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi 9th ed. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).

[KJ02] Kron, K. A., W. S. Judd, P. F. Stevens, D. M. Crayn, A. A. Anderberg, P. A. Gadek, C. J. Quinn & J. L. Luteyn. 2002. Phylogenetic classification of Ericaceae: molecular and morphological evidence. Botanical Review 68: 335–423.

[MCR04] Majer, J. D., R. D. Cocquyt & H. F. Recher. 2004. Powdery bark in Eucalyptus accedens deters arthropods? An evaluation using ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 87 (2): 81–83.

[MH98] Morikawa, H., A. Higaki, M. Nohno, M. Takahashi, M. Kamada, M. Nakata, G. Toyohara, Y. Okamura, K. Matsui, S. Kitani, K. Fujita, K. Irifune & N. Goshima. 1998. More than a 600-fold variation in nitrogen dioxide assimilation among 217 plant taxa. Plant, Cell and Environment 21: 180–190.

[O88] Ohba, H. 1988. The alpine flora of the Nepal Himalayas: an introductory note. In: Ohba, H., & S. B. Malla (eds) The Himalayan Plants vol. 1. The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Bulletin 31: 19–46.

[OB11] Orenstein, R. I., & D. Brewer. 2011. Family Cardinalidae (cardinals). In: Hoyo, J. del, A. Elliott & D. A. Christie (eds) Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 16. Tanagers to New World Blackbirds pp. 330–427. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona.

[PF02] Pomeroy, N., & R. M. Fisher. 2002. Pollination of kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) by bumble bees (Bombus terrestris): effects of bee density and patterns of flower visitation. New Zealand Entomologist 25: 41–49.

[SWK87] Snyder, N. F. R., J. W. Wiley & C. B. Kepler. 1987. The Parrots of Luquillo: Natural history and conservation of the Puerto Rican parrot. Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology: Los Angeles.

[S81] Steffan, W. A. 1981. Sciaridae. In: McAlpine, J. F., B. V. Peterson, G. E. Shewell, H. J. Teskey, J. R. Vockeroth & D. S. Wood (eds) Manual of Nearctic Diptera vol. 1 pp. 247–255. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada.

[SN88] Suzuki, M., & S. Noshiro. 1988. Wood structure of Himalayan plants. In: Ohba, H., & S. B. Malla (eds) The Himalayan Plants vol. 1. The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Bulletin 31: 341–379.

[T00] Thorne, R. F. 2000. The classification and geography of the flowering plants: dicotyledons of the class Angiospermae (subclasses Magnoliidae, Ranunculidae, Caryophyllidae, Dilleniidae, Rosidae, Asteridae, and Lamiidae). The Botanical Review 66: 441–647.

Last updated: 26 June 2020.

Lamiaceae

Teak Tectona grandis, photographed by J. M. Garg.


Belongs within: Lamiales.
Contains: Satureja, Thymus, Stachys, Prostanthera, Monardella, Dicrastylis, Scutellaria, Nepeta, Elsholtzieae, Ocimeae, Mentha, Salvia, Trichostema, Teucrium, Vitex, Clerodendrum.

The Lamiaceae are a family of flowering plants found worldwide, referred to in older publications as the 'Labiatae' in reference to the development of an upper and lower lip on the corolla (though the upper lip may be very small). Most species are herbs or shrubs, though a few trees are also included in the family (such as the commercially significant Tectona grandis, teak). Members of the Symphorematoideae are woody climbers, as are some Ajugoideae (Harley et al. 2004). Arborescent members of the family were previously included in the Verbenaceae, but the two families differ in ovule position: Lamiaceae have ovules on the inner face of the carpel wall, while Verbenaceae proper have ovules attached to the carpel margin (Harley et al. 2004). Many species have leaves with glands producing resinous oils, and as a result many species of the family are used as herbs, such as species of Mentha (mint), Lavandula (lavender), Salvia (sage), Rosmarinus (rosemary), Thymus (thyme) and Ocimum (basil).

Subfamilies of Lamiaceae can be separated by characters of the flowers and fruits. The style is gynobasic in Nepetoideae and Lamioideae, but usually terminal or subterminal in other subfamilies. Members of the Ajugoideae usually have actinomorphic to unilabiate corollas in contrast to the bilabiate corollas of most other Lamiaceae. The Scutellarioideae have zygomorphic, usually two-lipped corollas and schizocarpic fruits with the pericarp usually bearing tubercles or hair-like structures.

Characters (from Harley et al. 2004): Trees, shrubs, subshrubs or perennial or annual herbs, rarely climbers, aromatic or not. Roots rarely tuberous. Stems often quadrangular, erect to prostrate, sometimes forming stolons or large or slender rhizomes. Indumentum usually present, of glandular and non-glandular trichomes, often hair-like, rarely scale-like, usually multicellular-uniseriate, simple, branched, dendroid or stellate, sometimes gland-tipped, large-headed subsessile glands rarely absent. Leaves opposite, often decussate, sometimes whorled, very rarely alternate, simple, entire, toothed or lobed, sometimes compound and then digitate or pinnate, petiolate or sessile, rarely forming a basal rosette, estipulate. Inflorescence often bracteate, bracts sometimes conspicuous, persistent or deciduous, rarely spirally arranged, composed of cymes, bracteolate or not, and often arranged in a terminal, lax or congested, indeterminate thyrse which may be paniculate, raceme-like with cymes often 1-flowered, or spike-like, or rarely congested into a capitulum, with or without a distinct involucre of bracteoles. Flowers hypogynous, usually bisexual, or less often unisexual due to gynodioecy or gynomonoecy, very rarely due to dioecy. Perianth biseriate, sepals 4-5(-9), connate, actinomorphic to zygomorphic, sometimes 2-lipped, lobes 2-many, often 5, equal or unequal, rarely obsolete, some lobes often fused, or lips entire, calyx-tube (5-)10-15-nerved, straight or curved, throat hairy or glabrous, calyx often accrescent, rarely inflated or fleshy in fruit. Petals (4-)5(-6) connate, actinomorphic to more often slightly to strongly zygomorphic, often 2-lipped, rarely 1-lipped, lobes (2-)4-5(-16), equal or unequal, porrect to patent, one or other lip often concave to galeate, corolla-tube short to elongate, rarely spurred, often with annulus of hairs or appendaged within, rarely corolla resupinate. Stamens attached within corolla-tube, usually 4 or 2 by abortion and then staminodes often present, or stamens 5-8(-16), when 4 often didynamous (rarely a fifth, posterior vestigial staminode present), free or rarely monodelphic, filaments short or often elongate, usually exserted from corolla-tube and sometimes long-exserted from corolla; parallel, divergent or ascending and sometimes included within or lying under posterior corolla-lip, or declinate and then sometimes included within anterior corolla-lip, anthers usually dithecous, tetrasporangiate or monothecous by abortion, thecae parallel or divergent, occasionally widely separated by an elongate connective, or apically confluent or synthecous, opening by longitudinal slits or rarely by pores. Disc at base of ovary often present, usually fleshy, entire or irregularly or often 4-lobed, anterior lobe sometimes longer than others, nectariferous. Gynoecium 2-carpellate, often 4-locular by intrusion of carpel wall forming "false septum", or rarely imperfectly 2-locular and free towards apex, ovary usually 4-ovuled, 2-locular ovaries generally with loculi 2-ovuled and 4-locular ovaries with l ovule per loculus, ovary entire or lobed, with terminal style, or more often deeply 4-lobed, the loculi often separated and with style gynobasic, style usually with 2 equal or unequal stigma-lobes, rarely entire with 1 stigma-lobe vestigial, or stigma capitate or very rarely 4-lobed. Ovules anatropous to hemianatropous, usually basal or sub-basal, erect, rarely orthotropous, apical, pendulous, borne laterally or submarginally on the placenta, unitegmic, tenuinucellate. Fruit drupaceous, often with pyrenes, or dry, indehiscent, or separating into two 2-seeded or frequently, four 1-seeded mericarps, sometimes fewer by abortion. Mericarps (nutlets) often with sculptured, tuberculate, hairy or rarely winged pericarp, mucilage cells often present. Seeds albuminous or exalbuminous, epigeal. Embryo straight or bent, investing or spatulate.

<==Lamiaceae [Labiatae]
    |--Pogostemon BB07 [Pogostemoneae, Pogostemonoideae T00]
    |    |--P. benghalensis BB07
    |    `--P. stellatus LK14
    |--Symphorematoideae T00
    |    |--Congea T00
    |    |--Sphenodesme T00
    |    `--Symphorema T00
    |--Scutellarioideae T00
    |    |--Renschia T00
    |    |--Tinnea T00
    |    |--Holmskioldia sanguinea T00, P03
    |    `--Scutellaria A61
    |--Lamium CD07 [Lamioideae T00]
    |    |--*L. amplexicaule P01
    |    |    |--L. a. var. amplexicaule BR65
    |    |    `--L. a. var. clandestinum BR65
    |    |--L. album H59
    |    |--L. bifidum Y98
    |    |--L. maculatum C55b
    |    |--L. moschatum PT98
    |    |--L. nepalense O88
    |    |--L. purpureum Linnaeus 1753 CD07
    |    `--L. tuberosum O88
    |--Nepetoideae [Ocimoideae] HPR03
    |    |  i. s.: Nepeta HPR03
    |    |--Elsholtzieae HPR03
    |    |--Ocimeae HPR03
    |    `--Mentheae M99
    |         |--Mentha BR65
    |         |--Salvia M99
    |         `--Origanum M99
    |              |--O. dictamnus H93
    |              |--O. majorana H93
    |              |--O. onites PT98
    |              `--O. vulgare M99
    |--Chloanthoideae [Chloanthaceae] T00
    |    |--Tectona grandis T00, HU08
    |    |--Chloanthes OS04
    |    |    |--C. coccinea OS04
    |    |    |--C. parviflora PWP96
    |    |    `--C. stoechadis H87
    |    |--Physopsis KM08
    |    |    |--P. chrysophylla KM08
    |    |    `--P. viscida G04a
    |    `--Westringia M99
    |         |--W. cephalantha G04b
    |         |--W. dampieri Brown 1810 [incl. W. grevillina Mueller 1855] BR65
    |         |--W. eremicola [incl. W. angustifolia Black 1926 (preoc.)] BR65
    |         |--W. fruticosa MM09
    |         |--W. rigida Brown 1810 [incl. W. cinerea] BR65
    |         `--W. rosmarinifolia H87
    `--Ajugoideae [Caryopteridoideae, Monochileae, Teucrioideae, Viticoideae] T00
         |--Tetraclea T00
         |--Trichostema T00
         |--Wenchengia T00
         |--Teucrium M99
         |--Vitex A61
         |--Spartothamnella Briquet 1894 T00, BR65
         |    |--S. juncea PWP96
         |    `--S. teucriiflora (Mueller) Moldenke 1940 BR65
         |--Discretitheca nepalensis (Moldenke) Cantino 1999 [=Caryopteris nepalensis Moldenke 1959] K07
         |    |--D. n. var. nepalensis K07
         |    `--D. n. var. parvifolia (Moldenke) Kumar 2007 [=Caryopteris nepalensis var. pavifolia Moldenke 1973] K07
         |--Pseudocaryopteris K07
         |    |--P. bicolor (Roxburgh) Cantino 1999 (see below for synonymy) K07
         |    |--P. foetida (Don) Cantino 1999 (see below for synonymy) K07
         |    `--P. paniculata (Clarke) Cantino 1999 [=Caryopteris paniculata Clarke in Hooker 1885] K07
         |--Ajuga BR65
         |    |--A. australis BR65
         |    |--A. bracteosa O88
         |    |--A. chamaepitys PT98
         |    |    |--A. c. ssp. chamaepitys PT98
         |    |    `--A. c. ssp. chia PT98
         |    |--A. iva [incl. A. pseudo-iva] BR65
         |    |--A. lupulina O88
         |    |--A. macrosperma D07
         |    `--A. reptans P01
         |--Callicarpa PWP96
         |    |--C. candicans LK14
         |    |--C. dichotoma OP01
         |    `--C. selleana J87
         |--Clerodendrum PWP96
         |--Petraea volubilis PWP96
         |--Faradaya splendida PWP96
         |--Gmelina PWP96
         |    |--G. arborea P03
         |    |--G. asiatica [incl. Bignonia discolor Rich. 1834 non Br. 1814, B. moluccana DC. 1845] S77
         |    `--G. leichhardtii PWP96
         |--Premna PWP96
         |    |--P. acuminata LK14
         |    |--P. divaricata C55b
         |    |--P. flavescens P03
         |    |--P. herbacea LK14
         |    `--P. lignum-vitae PWP96
         `--Glossocarya hemiderma PWP96

Lamiaceae incertae sedis:
  Orthosiphon P03
    |--O. aristatus [incl. O. stamineus] P88
    `--O. rubicundus P03
  Perilla frutescens PT01
    |--P. f. var. frutescens PT01
    `--P. f. var. crispa PT01
  Iboza YY22
  Moschosma YY22
  Colebrookia oppositifolia YY22, HU08
  Satureja DH98
  Thymus PL04
  Colquhounia coccinea O88
  Dracocephalum O88
    |--D. austriacum H09
    |--D. heterophyllum O88
    |--D. ruyschiana C55a
    |--D. tanguticum O88
    `--D. wallichii O88
  Eriophyton wallichii O88
  Galeopsis V09
    |--G. bifida V09
    |--G. ladanum C55b
    |--G. pubescens D51
    |--G. segetum V09
    |--G. speciosa D51
    `--G. tetrahit D51
  Glechoma O88
    |--G. decolorans O88
    |--G. nivalis O88
    `--G. pharica O88
  Micromeria biflora O88
    |--M. b. var. biflora O88
    `--M. b. var. hispida O88
  Phlomis O88
    |--P. bracteosa O88
    |--P. lychnitis C74
    |--P. macrophylla O88
    |--P. pungens B14
    |--P. rotata O88
    |--P. setigera O88
    |--P. tibetica O88
    `--P. tuberosa MN02
  Rabdosia pharica O88
  Stachys BR65
  Rosmarinus officinalis BR65
  Ballota GR98
    |--B. acetabulosa PT98
    |--B. deserti (Noë) Jury, Rejdali & Griffiths in Greuter & Raus 1998 (see below for synonymy) GR98
    `--B. nigra C55b
  Coridothymus capitatus PT98
  Marrubium vulgare BR65
  Prasium majus PT98
  Sideritis curvidens PT98
  Lachnostachys coolgardiensis G04a
  Prostanthera BR65
  Cyanostegia lanceolata G04b
  Hemigenia OS04
    |--H. humilis OS04
    |--H. incana OS04
    |--H. purpurea H87
    |--H. teretiuscula G04b
    `--H. westringioides G04b
  Microcorys OS04
    |--M. lenticularis OS04
    `--M. obovata G04b
  Hemiandra OS04
    |--H. linearis OS04
    `--H. pungens N36
  Prunella BR65
    |--P. laciniata H91
    `--P. vulgaris [=Brunella vulgaris] BR65
         |--P. v. var. vulgaris [incl. P. vulgaris var. parviflora] H93
         `--P. v. var. lanceolata [incl. P. vulgaris var. atropurpurea] H93
  Lycopus BR65
    |--L. americanus H93
    |--L. asper H93
    |--L. australis BR65
    |--L. europaeus LDB98
    `--L. uniflorus H93
  Melissa officinalis BR65
  Hemizygia K02
    |--H. floccosa CV06
    `--H. foliosa K02
  Acrotome fleckii CV06
  Aeollanthus namibiensis CV06
  Tetradenia kaokoensis CV06
  Pityrodia LK14
    |--P. loxocarpa KM08
    `--P. ternifolia LK14
  Leucas SR07
    |--L. aspera DP72
    |--L. chinensis SR07
    |--L. martinicensis C55b
    |--L. mollisima P03
    `--L. urticaefolia PP07
  Dysophylla auricularia BB07
  Gomphostemma parviflora BB07
  Calamintha H91
    |--C. clinopodium [incl. Clinopodium vulgare] C55b
    |--C. nepeta H91
    `--C. sylvatica H91
  Anisomeles LK14
    |--A. indica P03
    |--A. malabarica LK14
    |--A. ovata M94
    `--A. salvifolia C16
  Perovskia abrotanoides [incl. P. artemisioides] YS10
  Basilicum polystachyon LK14
  Cedronella triphylla C06
  Leonotis nepetifolia H93, C55b
  Acanthomintha H93
    |--A. duttonii [=A. obovata var. duttonii] H93
    |--A. ilicifolia H93
    |--A. lanceolata H93
    `--A. obovata H93
         |--A. o. ssp. obovata H93
         `--A. o. ssp. cordata H93
  Agastache H93
    |--A. parvifolia [=A. urticifolia ssp. parvifolia] H93
    `--A. urticifolia [incl. A. glaucifolia] H93
  Glecoma hederacea H93
  Hedeoma H93
    |--H. drummondii H93
    `--H. nanum H93
         |--H. n. var. nanum H93
         `--H. n. var. californicum H93
  Lepechinia H93
    |--L. calycina H93
    |--L. cardiophylla H93
    |--L. fragrans H93
    `--L. ganderi H93
  Moluccella laevis H93
  Monarda H93
    |--M. didyma I92
    |--M. menthaefolia BT72
    |--M. mollis S00
    `--M. pectinata H93
  Monardella H93
  Pogogyne H93
    |--P. abramsii H93
    |--P. clareana H93
    |--P. douglasii H93
    |    |--P. d. ssp. douglasii H93
    |    `--P. d. ssp. parviflora H93
    |--P. floribunda H93
    |--P. nudiuscula H93
    |--P. serpylloides [incl. P. serpylloides ssp. intermedia] H93
    `--P. zizyphoroides H93
  Poliomintha incana H93
  Pycnanthemum californicum H93
  Salazaria mexicana H93
  Dicrastylis H18
  Ajuginucula smithii Reid & Chandler 1926 CBH93
  Phyllostegia AS02

Ballota deserti (Noë) Jury, Rejdali & Griffiths in Greuter & Raus 1998 [=Sideritis deserti Noë 1855, Marrubium deserti (Noë) Cosson 1857] GR98

Pseudocaryopteris bicolor (Roxburgh) Cantino 1999 [=Volkameria bicolor Roxburgh ex Hardw. 1799, Caryopteris bicolor (Roxburgh) Mabb. in Manilal 1980; incl. Clerodendrum odoratum var. albiflorum Voigt 1845, Ca. odorata var. albiflora (Voigt) Moldenke 1971, Cl. odoratum Don 1825, Ca. odorata (Don) Rob. 1916, Volkameria odorata Roxburgh 1814 (n. n.), Ca. wallichiana Schauer in de Candolle 1847] K07

Pseudocaryopteris foetida (Don) Cantino 1999 [=Clerodendrum foetidum Don 1825, Caryopteris foetida (Don) Thell. 1919; incl. Cl. gratum Wallich ex Walp. 1845, Ca. grata (Wallich) Benth. in Benth. & Hooker 1876] K07

*Type species of generic name indicated

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Aspidospermeae

Flowers and fruit of tear-shrub Vallesia antillana, from here.


Belongs within: Apocynaceae.

The Aspidospermeae are a tribe within the family Apocynaceae that was defined by Sennblad & Bremer (2002) as the most inclusive clade including Aspidosperma and Vallesia but not the Alyxieae, Carisseae, Hunterieae, Melodineae, Plumerieae, Tabernaemontaneae, Vinceae, Willughbieae or Apocynoidina. Members of this clade include herbs, shrubs and trees; some of the latter in the genera Aspidosperma and Alstonia are commercial timber sources.

Synapomorphies (from Sennblad & Bremer 2002): Style heads simple, lacking both stigmatic hollow and upper hair wreath; fruits apocarpous.

<==Aspidospermeae [Alstonieae]
    |  i. s.: Geissospermum SB02
    |         Haplophyton SB02
    |         Microplumeria SB02
    |         Strempeliopsis SB02
    |--+--Vallesia antillana SB02
    |  `--Aspidosperma SB02
    |       |--A. gomezianum C55
    |       `--A. triternatum SB02
    `--Alstonia SB02
         |--A. angustifolia K03
         |--A. constricta H42
         |--A. muelleriana BH07
         |--A. scholaris SB02
         |--A. spatulata C78
         `--A. verticallosa H42

*Type species of generic name indicated

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Magnoliales

Tulip tree Liriodendron tulipifera, photographed by Bruce Marlin.


Belongs within: Mesangiospermae.
Contains: Myristica, Annonaceae.

The Magnoliales are a clade of flowering plants well supported by molecular analyses, as well as by two morphological synapomorphies: midrib vasculature in shape of an arc with adaxial plate, and secondary phloem stratified into tangential bands (Chatrou 2003). Within the clade, the Myristicaceae are the sister group to all other taxa, the Magnoliineae. Myristicaceae are distinguished by the presence of tanniferous tubes, sympodially branched hairs, unisexual flowers and arillate seeds. Magnoliineae are supported by the presence of a eustele, solitary flowers, spiral stamen phyllotaxy, an extended connective apex, embedded pollen sacs and a multiplicative testa (Chatrou 2003).

<==Magnoliales [Annonineae]
    |  i. s.: Asimina BL04
    |--Myristicaceae [Myristicales, Mytristicineae] C03
    |    |--Myristica F78
    |    |--Knema F78
    |    |    |--K. attenuata SR07
    |    |    `--K. tomentella (Miq.) Warb. 1897 F78
    |    |--Broohoneura YY22
    |    |--Cephalosphaera YY22
    |    |--Coelocaryon YY22
    |    |--Compsoneura YY22
    |    |--Dialyanthera YY22
    |    |--Horsfieldia irya F78, P88
    |    |--Iryanthera YY22
    |    |--Mauloutchia YY22
    |    |--Osteophloeum YY22
    |    |--Pycnanthus YY22
    |    |--Scyphocephalium YY22
    |    |--Staudtia YY22
    |    |--Virola oleifera MP00
    |    `--Gymnacranthera paniculata F78
    |         |--G. p. var. paniculata F78
    |         `--G. p. var. zippeliana (Miq.) Sinclair 1958 (see below for synonymy) F78
    `--Magnoliineae C03
         |--+--+--Degeneriaceae C03
         |  |  `--Galbulimima C78b [Himantandraceae C03]
         |  |       `--G. belgraveana (Muell.) Sprague 1922 (see below for synonymy) C78b
         |  `--+--Annonaceae C03
         |     `--Eupomatia C78a [Eupomatiaceae C03, Eupomatiales]
         |          |--E. bennettii C78a
         |          `--E. laurina Brown 1914 C78a
         `--Magnoliaceae C03
              |  i. s.: Talauma C78c
              |           |--T. dodecapetula SWK87
              |           `--T. oreadum Diels 1916 [=Aromadendron oreadum (Diels) Kan. & Hat. 1943] C78c
              |         Elmerrillia papuana (Schltr) Dandy 1927 (see below for synonymy) C78c
              |--Liriodendron [Liriodendroideae] DS04
              |    |--L. chinense DS04
              |    `--L. tulipifera SK03
              `--+--Michelia DS04
                 |    |--M. alba C78c
                 |    |--M. champaca C78c
                 |    |--M. doltsopa D07
                 |    |--M. figo DS04
                 |    `--M. velutina D07
                 `--Magnolia [Magnolioideae] DS04
                      |--M. denudata [incl. M. conspicua] LO98
                      |--M. grandiflora DS04
                      |--M. kobus LO98
                      |--M. obovata [incl. M. hypoleuca] LO98
                      |--M. splendens SWK87
                      |--M. torresii Ettingshausen 1883 F71
                      `--M. virginiana Linnaeus 1753 CD07

Elmerrillia papuana (Schltr) Dandy 1927 [=Talauma papuana Schltr 1913; incl. E. papuana var. adpressa Dandy 1928, Michelia forbesii Bak. f. 1923, E. papuana var. glaberrima Dandy 1928, E. sericea White 1929] C78c

Galbulimima belgraveana (Muell.) Sprague 1922 [=Eupomatia belgraveana Muell. 1887, Himantandra belgraveana (Muell.) Diels 1912; incl. Galbulimima baccata Bailey 1894, G. nitida Sprague 1923, Himantandra nitida Bak. f. & Norman 1923, G. parviflora Sprague 1923, H. parviflora Bak. f. & Norman 1923] C78b

Gymnacranthera paniculata var. zippeliana (Miq.) Sinclair 1958 [=Myristica zippeliana Miq. 1865, G. zippeliana (Miq.) Warb. 1897] F78

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BL04] Barkman, T. J., S.-H. Lim, K. M. Salleh & J. Nais. 2004. Mitochondrial DNA sequences reveal the photosynthetic relatives of Rafflesia, the world’s largest flower. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101 (3): 787-792.

[CD07] Cantino, P. D., J. A. Doyle, S. W. Graham, W. S. Judd, R. G. Olmstead, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis & M. J. Donoghue. 2007. Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of Tracheophyta. Taxon 56 (3): E1-E44.

[C03] Chatrou, L. W. 2003. Myristicineae, a new suborder within Magnoliales. Taxon 52: 277-279.

[C78a] Croft, J. R. 1978a. Eupomatiaceae. In Handbooks of the Flora of Papua New Guinea vol. 1 (J. S. Womersley, ed.) pp. 123-125. Melbourne University Press: Carlton South (Australia).

[C78b] Croft, J. R. 1978b. Himantandraceae. In Handbooks of the Flora of Papua New Guinea vol. 1 (J. S. Womersley, ed.) pp. 126-128. Melbourne University Press: Carlton South (Australia).

[C78c] Croft, J. R. 1978c. Magnoliaceae. In Handbooks of the Flora of Papua New Guinea vol. 1 (J. S. Womersley, ed.) pp. 129-134. Melbourne University Press: Carlton South (Australia).

[D07] Dash, S. S. 2007. Useful plants of Kabi Sacred Grove, Sikkim. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49 (1-4): 79-88.

[DS04] Davis, J. I., D. W. Stevenson, G. Petersen, O. Seberg, L. M. Campbell, J. V. Freudenstein, D. H. Goldman, C. R. Hardy, F. A. Michelangeli, M. P. Simmons, C. D. Specht, F. Vergara-Silva & M. Gandolfo. 2004. A phylogeny of the monocots, as inferred from rbcL and atpA sequence variation, and a comparison of methods for calculating jackknife and bootstrap values. Systematic Botany 29 (3): 467-510.

[F78] Foreman, D. B. 1978. Myristicaceae (excluding Horsfieldia). In Handbooks of the Flora of Papua New Guinea vol. 1 (J. S. Womersley, ed.) pp. 175-215. Melbourne University Press: Carlton South (Australia).

[LO98] Lack, H. W., & H. Ohba. 1998. Die Xylothek des Chikusai Kato. Willdenowia 28: 263-276.

[MP00] Machado, G., & M. A. Pizo. 2000. The use of fruits by the neotropical harvestman Neosadocus variabilis (Opiliones, Laniatores, Gonyleptidae). Journal of Arachnology 28: 357-360.

[P88] Polunin, I. 1988. Plants and Flowers of Malaysia. Times Editions: Singapore.

[SR07] Sankar, R. V., K. Ravikumar, N. M. Ganesh Babu & D. K. Ved. 2007. Botany of Anapady MPCA, Palghat district, Kerala with special emphasis on species of conservation concern. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49 (1-4): 165-172.

[SK03] Snell, K. L., & H. W. Keller. 2003. Vertical distribution and assemblages of corticolous myxomycetes on five tree species in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mycologia 95 (4): 565-576.

[SWK87] Snyder, N. F. R., J. W. Wiley & C. B. Kepler. 1987. The Parrots of Luquillo: Natural history and conservation of the Puerto Rican parrot. Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology: Los Angeles.

[YY22] Yampolsky, C., & H. Yampolsky. 1922. Distribution of sex forms in the phanerogamic flora. Bibliotheca Genetica 3: 1-62.

Verbenaceae

Lantana camara, from here.


Belongs within: Lamiales.

The Verbenaceae are a family of flowering plants that are most speciose in tropical areas. Some species are popular garden plants, such as Verbena officinalis (vervain) and Lantana camara, and have become established invasives outside their native ranges. Some taxa previously included in Verbenaceae are now placed in the Lamiaceae as members of the subfamilies Chloanthoideae and Ajugoideae. Species of Newcastlia and Dicrastylis have indehiscent fruits (Black & Robertson 1965); Verbena, Phyla, Aloysia and Lantana have dry fruits dehiscing into two or four nutlets (Hickman 1993). Lantana and Aloysia are strong-smelling perennials or shrubs (Hickman 1993). Duranta is a genus of shrubs found in the American tropics, as well as elsewhere as an ornamental or invasive, bearing fleshy, dehiscing fruits and pedicellate flowers.

Characters (from Black & Robertson 1965): Herbs, trees or shrubs; leaves without stipules, opposite, alternate or whorled. Flowers usually sessile or subsessile, bisexual, irregular or almost regular; calyx with 4 or 5, rarely 6, lobes or teeth, persistent; corolla with cylindrical tube and limb (rarely two-lipped) of 4-6 imbricate lobes; stamens inserted in corolla tube, 4 in pairs or 4-6 alternate with lobes; anthers 2-celled, cells usually parallel; ovary superior, originally of two carpels, entire or shortly four-lobed, often seated on small disk, usually four-celled by intrusion of two secondary dissepiments, with one ovule in each cell; placentas axile; style rising from summit of ovary, usually more or less two-lobed; fruit dry or drupaceous, generally enclosed in calyx, indehiscent or separating septicidally into two or four nutlets or fruitlets; seeds one in each cell, or fewer by abortion; albumen scanty or absent; embryo straight, with an inferior radicle shorter than the thick cotyledons.

<==Verbenaceae [Verbenoideae]
    |--Aegiphila YY22
    |--Cornutia grandifolia MM96
    |--Chascanum marrubifolium PP07
    |--Premnophyllum trigonum Velenovsky 1884 CBH93
    |--‘Vermicularia’ Moench 1802 nec Tode 1790 nec Lamarck 1799 (ICZN) KC01
    |--Aloysia H93
    |    |--A. gratissima OB11
    |    `--A. wrightii [=Lippia wrightii (nom. inv.)] H93
    |--Teucridium Hooker 1854 A61
    |    `--T. parvifolium Hooker 1854 A61
    |         |--T. p. var. parvifolium A61
    |         `--T. p. var. luxurians Cheeseman 1925 A61
    |--Lantana BR65
    |    |--L. camara BR65
    |    |--L. hispida PWP96
    |    |--L. montevidensis H93
    |    |--L. trifolia J87
    |    `--L. urticifolia PWP96
    |--Stachytarpheta OP01
    |    |--S. cayennensis LK14
    |    |--S. dichotoma OP01
    |    |--S. indica B28
    |    |--S. jamaicensis MM96
    |    `--S. urticifolia PWP96
    |--Phyla B00
    |    |--P. canescens B00 [=Lippia canescens BR65]
    |    |--P. lanceolata [=Lippia lanceolata] H93
    |    `--P. nodiflora BR65 [=Verbena nodiflora C55, Lippia nodiflora BR65, Zapania nodiflora C55]
    |         |--P. n. var. nodiflora (see below for synonymy) H93
    |         `--P. n. var. incisa [=Lippia incisa] H93
    |--Citharexylum MP00
    |    |--C. caudatum JS87
    |    |--C. flexuosum OA02
    |    |--C. fruticosum SWK87
    |    |--C. myrianthum MP00
    |    `--C. spinosum [incl. Hadongia eberhardtii Gagn. 1950] S77
    |--Newcastlia BR65
    |    |--N. bracteosa BR65
    |    |--N. cephalantha BR65
    |    |--N. chrysotricha BR65
    |    |--N. dixonii BR65
    |    `--N. spodiotricha BR65
    |--Lippia P03
    |    |--L. asperifolia C55
    |    |--L. hypoleia BT87
    |    |--L. javanica P03
    |    |--L. lycioides C55
    |    |--L. myrocephala PWP96
    |    `--L. umbellata BT87
    |--Duranta H06
    |    |--D. arida JS87
    |    |    |--D. a. ssp. arida JS87
    |    |    `--D. s. ssp. serpentina Sanders & Judd in Judd & Sanders 1986 JS87
    |    |--D. armata OA02
    |    |--D. erecta H06
    |    `--D. repens PWP96
    |         |--D. r. var. repens PWP96
    |         `--D. r. var. lorentzii PWP96
    |--Peronema canescens S77
    `--Verbena LC02
         |--V. bonariensis OP01
         |--V. bracteata OP01
         |--V. californica H93
         |--V. carolina PWP96
         |--V. domingensis J87
         |--V. officinalis BR65
         |--V. gooddingii H93
         |--V. hastata [incl. V. hastata var. scabra] H93
         |--V. lasiostachys H93
         |    |--V. l. var. lasiostachys H93
         |    `--V. l. var. scabrida H93
         |--V. litoralis [incl. V. brasiliensis] H93
         |--V. macdougali C01
         |--V. macrostachya PWP96
         |--V. menthifolia H93
         |--V. rigida [incl. V. venosa] BR65
         |--V. scabra H93
         |--V. scabrido-glandulosa LC02
         |--V. supina BR65
         |--V. tenuisecta [incl. V. tenera] H93
         `--V. urticifolia J87

Phyla nodiflora var. nodiflora [incl. Lippia nodiflora var. canescens, L. nodiflora var. reptans, L. nodiflora var. rosea] H93

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A61] Allan, H. H. 1961. Flora of New Zealand vol. 1. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. R. E. Owen, Government Printer: Wellington (New Zealand).

[BT87] Baker, E. W., & D. M. Tuttle. 1987. The false spider mites of Mexico (Tenuipalpidae: Acari). United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin 1706: 1–237.

[B28] Betrem, J. G. 1928. Monographie der Indo-Australischen Scoliiden mit zoogeographischen Betrachtungen. H. Veenman & Zonen: Wageningen.

[BR65] Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. 1965. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.

[B00] Braby, M. F. 2000. Butterflies of Australia: their identification, biology and distribution vol. 2. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood (Victoria).

[C55] Candolle, A. de. 1855. Géographie Botanique Raisonée: Ou exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution géographique des plantes de l’époque actuelle vol. 2. Librairie de Victor Masson: Paris.

[C01] Cockerell, T. D. A. 1901. Contributions from the New Mexico Biological Station.—X. Observations on bees collected at Las Vegas, New Mexico, and in the adjacent mountains. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 7: 125–131.

[CBH93] Collinson, M. E., M. C. Boulter & P. L. Holmes. 1993. Magnoliophyta (‘Angiospermae’). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 809–841. Chapman & Hall: London.

[H06] Henderson, L. 2006. Comparisons of invasive plants in southern Africa originating from southern temperate, northern temperate and tropical regions. Bothalia 36 (2): 201–222.

[H93] Hickman, J. C. (ed.) 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press: Berkeley (California).

[J87] Judd, W. S. 1987. Floristic study of Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya National Parks, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum—Biological Sciences 32 (1): 1–136.

[JS87] Judd, W. S., & J. D. Skean Jr. 1987. Three new angiosperms from Parc National Pic Macaya, Massif de la Hotte, Haiti. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum—Biological Sciences 32 (1): 137–150.

[KC01] Kirk, P. M., P. F. Cannon, J. C. David & J. A. Stalpers. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi 9th ed. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).

[LC02] Långström, E., & M. W. Chase. 2002. Tribes of Boraginoideae (Boraginaceae) and placement of Antiphytum, Echiochilon, Ogastemma and Sericostoma: a phylogenetic analysis based on atpB plastid DNA sequence data. Plant Systematics and Evolution 234: 137–153.

[LK14] Lyons, M. N., G. J. Keighery, L. A. Gibson & T. Handasyde. 2014. Flora and vegetation communities of selected islands off the Kimberley coast of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 81: 205–244.

[MP00] Machado, G., & M. A. Pizo. 2000. The use of fruits by the neotropical harvestman Neosadocus variabilis (Opiliones, Laniatores, Gonyleptidae). Journal of Arachnology 28: 357–360.

[MM96] Mound, L. A., & R. Marullo. 1996. The thrips of Central and South America: an introduction (Insecta: Thysanoptera). Memoirs on Entomology, International 6: 1–487.

[OA02] Ochoa, J. A., & L. E. Acosta. 2002. Orobothriurus atiquipa, a new bothriurid species (Scorpiones) from Lomas in southern Peru. Journal of Arachnology 30: 98–103.

[OP01] Olmstead, R. G., C. W. dePamphilis, A. D. Wolfe, N. D. Young, W. J. Elisons & P. A. Reeves. 2001. Disintegration of the Scrophulariaceae. American Journal of Botany 88 (2): 348–361.

[OB11] Orenstein, R. I., & D. Brewer. 2011. Family Cardinalidae (cardinals). In: Hoyo, J. del, A. Elliott & D. A. Christie (eds) Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 16. Tanagers to New World Blackbirds pp. 330–427. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona.

[PWP96] Palmer, W. A., B. W. Willson & K. R. Pullen. 1996. The host range of Aconophora compressa Walker (Homoptera: Membracidae): a potential biological control agent for Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98 (4): 617–624.

[PP07] Pandey, R. P., & P. M. Padhye. 2007. Studies on phytodiversity of Arid Machia Safari Park-Kailana in Jodhpur (Rajasthan). Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 49: 15–78.

[P03] Paul, T. K. 2003. Botanical observations on the Purulia pumped storage hydropower project area, Bagmundi Hills, Purulia district, West Bengal. Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India 45: 121–142.

[SWK87] Snyder, N. F. R., J. W. Wiley & C. B. Kepler. 1987. The Parrots of Luquillo: Natural history and conservation of the Puerto Rican parrot. Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology: Los Angeles.

[S77] Steenis, C. G. G. J. van. 1977. Bignoniaceae. Flora Malesiana, Series I—Spermatophyta, Flowering Plants 8 (2): 114–186.

[YY22] Yampolsky, C., & H. Yampolsky. 1922. Distribution of sex forms in the phanerogamic flora. Bibliotheca Genetica 3: 1–62.

Last updated: 29 March 2020.