Peltanthera

<i>Peltanthera</i>

Peltanthera

Genus of flowering plants

For Peltanthera Roth, the flowering vines of Asia called breadflower, see Vallaris.

Peltanthera is a genus of flowering plants containing a single species, Peltanthera floribunda.[1] The genus was originally placed in family Loganiaceae[3] and has since been variously placed in Buddlejaceae,[4] Scrophulariaceae,[5] Gesneriaceae,[6] or in its own family Peltantheraceae.[5][7] In 2016, it was considered by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group to be unplaced in any family, but within the order Lamiales,[8] while Christenhusz et al. in 2017 placed it in family Gesneriaceae as subfamily Peltantheroideae.[9] The placement in Gesneriaceae was accepted by Plants of the World Online as of March 2024.[1]

Quick Facts Peltanthera, Scientific classification ...

The plant is a tree with opposite leaf arrangement.[3] The leaves are large and elliptic in shape. It has white fragrant flowers in a cymose inflorescence with trichotomous branches. The calyx and corolla each have five lobes, and there are five stamens. The two locules of the ovary each contain many seeds.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Peltanthera Benth." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  2. [2]
    "Peltanthera floribunda Benth. & Hook.f." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2024-03-02.
  3. [3]
    Bentham, George & Hooker, Joseph Dalton, Genera Plantarum, vol. 2, Reeve & Co., p. 797
  4. [4]
    The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 28 March 2015
  5. [5]
    Tropicos.org, retrieved 28 March 2015
  6. [6]
    ITIS, retrieved 28 March 2015
  7. [7]
    Eduardo Antonio Molinari-Novoa (2016), Two New Lamiid Families For The Americas (PDF), vol. 1, pp. 1–4, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-10, retrieved 2016-05-17
  8. [8]
    The 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): 1–20, doi:10.1111/boj.12385
  9. [9]
    Christenhusz, Maarten J.M.; Fay, Michael F.; Chase, Mark W. (2017). Plants of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Vascular Plants. Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK: Kew Publishing and The University of Chicago Press. pp. 548–551. ISBN 9781842466360.
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