Heimerliodendron Skottsb.

Details

Name scientific

Heimerliodendron Skottsb., Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 35: 364 (1941)

Preferred name

Ceodes J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.

Linked name

Heimerliodendron Skottsb. 1941

Nomenclature

Original authors

Skottsb.

Authors

Skottsb.

Publication place

Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift

Year published

1941

Publication page

35: 364

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Heimerliodendron Skottsb.

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Heimerliodendron

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Nyctaginaceae

Genus

Heimerliodendron

Subordinates

Heimerliodendron brunonianum

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.