Pisonia L.

Details

Name scientific

Pisonia L., Sp. Pl. 1026-1027 (1753)

Preferred name

Pisonia L.

Taxonomy reference

Rossetto, E.F.S.; Faria, A.D.; Ruas, P.M.; Ruas, C.F.; Douglas, N.A.; Ribeiro, J.E.L.S. 2019: Clarifying generic delimitation in Nyctaginaceae tribe Pisonieae after more than a century of taxonomy confusion. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 189(4): 378–396.

Linked name

Pisonia

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Original authors

Publication place

Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.

Year published

1753

Publication page

1026-1027

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pisonia L.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Pisonia

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Nyctaginaceae

Genus

Pisonia

Subordinates

Synonyms

Heimerliodendron Skottsb.

Descriptions

Allan, H.H. 1961: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. I. Indigenous Tracheophyta: Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledones. Government Printer, Wellington.

Heimerliodendron Skottsb.

Description

Fls perfect, in terminal panicled cymes; calyx funnelform, limb very shortly plicately 5-lobed; stamens mostly 7-8, unequal; filaments expanded and united below. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; stigmas pulvinate, lateral. Fr. enclosed in elongated, 5-ribbed per.; seed oblong, grooved. Shrubs or trees with opp. to subwhorled lvs. Genus perhaps monotypic: Hawaiian, Kermadec, Norfolk and Lord Howe Is, Australia, N.Z.