Kleinhovia ( lat.Kleinhovia ) is a genus of evergreen trees included in the tribe Byttnerieae of the family Malvaceae . It includes one species - Kleinkhovia serrated .
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Title
In 1763, Karl Linney named the Kleinchow family after the German physician Christian Kleinhof (? -1777), who worked for several years in the Dutch East Indies . He was the owner of a botanical garden in Batavia. In 1762, he returned to Europe and settled in the Netherlands. The species epithet hospita means "friendly."
Botanical Description
Kleinkhovia is an evergreen tree reaching 12 m in height. Bark without leaves, gray. Young twigs of light green or gray-green color, with fleecy pubescence.
The leaves are egg-shaped, with a smooth or slightly serrated edge, with a rounded or pointed end, on petioles up to 5.5 cm long. The lower side of the leaf blade is first pubescent, the upper is always smooth.
The flowers are bisexual, collected in dense inflorescences - panicles at the ends of twigs. The calyx consists of five loose pink sepals. The petals are pink, with a yellow end, uneven, smaller than the sepals, also in the amount of 5. Stamens 15, their threads fused. The ovary is spherical, five-lobed, pubescent, with five ovules in each lobe, of which usually only one grows. Flowering is usually observed from March to July.
The fruit is pear-shaped or almost spherical, noticeably pentagonal, pinkish when ripe. Seeds are dark brown or almost black in color, rounded.
Range
Toothed Kleinchovia is widespread in the tropics of the Old World and Oceania . It grows in hilly and mountain forests in Africa , Asia and Australia .
Taxonomy
| 9 more families (according to APG III System ) | ||||||||||||
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| Department of Flowering, or Angiosperms | family of malvaceae | |||||||||||
| another 58 orders of flowering plants ( APG III System ) | about 200 more births | |||||||||||
Synonyms
Generic:
- Cattimarus Rumph. ex Kuntze , 1891
Species:
- Cattimarus hospitus (L.) Kuntze, 1891
- Grewia meyeniana Walp. , 1843
- Kleinhovia serrata Blanco , 1837
Notes
- β For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
Literature
- 7. Kleinhovia Linnaeus // Flora of China . - 2007. - Vol. 12. - P. 320.
- Steenis, CGGJ van. Kleynhoff, Christiaan // Flora Malesiana. - Djakarta, 1950. - Vol. 1. - P. 284. - 639 p.