Poranthera Rudge

Details

Name scientific

Poranthera Rudge, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 10: 302, t. 22 (1811)

Preferred name

Poranthera Rudge

Taxonomy reference

Halford, D.A., Henderson, R.J.F. 2005: Studies in Euphorbiaceae, s. lat. 6. A revision of the genus Poranthera Rudge (Antidesmeae, Porantherinae) in Australia. Austrobaileya 7(1): 1–27.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Indigenous, non-endemic

Wild

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Authors

Rudge

Original authors

Rudge

Publication place

Rudge, E. 1811: A description of several species of plants from New Holland. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 10: 283–303.

Year published

1811

Publication page

302, t. 22

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Poranthera Rudge

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Poranthera

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Malpighiales

Family

Phyllanthaceae

Genus

Poranthera

Subordinates

Synonyms

Oreoporanthera Hutch.

Descriptions

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

Poranthera Rudge

Description

Plants monoec. or dioec.; fls solitary to subumbellately or cymosely arranged, 5-merous; calyx petaloid, deeply lobed; petals present, smaller than calyx, or absent. Anthers ± 4-celled, the cells opening by a terminal pore. Ovary depressed-globular, 6-lobed, 3-celled; styles 3. Fr. capsular, splitting into 3 2-valved cocci. Genus of a few Australian and 2 N.Z. spp., of which also occurs in Australia and Tasmania.