Snowflake ( lat. Chionanthus ) is a genus of the Olive family ( lat. Oleaceae ), containing about 147 [2] species of flowering plants .
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Chionanthus L. , 1753 |
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Chionanthus virginicus L., 1753 - Virgin Snowflake |
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The genus is widespread mainly in the tropics and subtropics , however, two species were found in temperate latitudes : Chionanthus retusus in East Asia and Chionanthus virginicus in eastern North America . Most tropical species are evergreen, and two species from the temperate zone are deciduous. Some botanists include only two deciduous species in the genus Chionanthus , and the evergreens are isolated as an independent genus Linociera , but there is no significant difference between them, except for the leaf life.
Chionanthus virginicus flowers
These are shrubs or trees of small and medium size, reaching 3-25 m in height. Leaves are opposite, simple. Flowers are collected in cirrus panicles . The corolla is divided into 4 thin lobes, they are white, pale yellow or pinkish. Fruits are single-seeded drupes .
According to the database of The Plant List , the genus includes 147 species [2] . Some of them:
- Chionanthus albidiflorus - Sri Lanka .
- Chionanthus axillaris - Australia ( Queensland )
- Chionanthus axilliflorus - Caribbean
- Chionanthus brachythyrsus - South China ( Hainan ), Vietnam
- Chionanhus broomeana - Reunion
- Chionanthus caudatus - Myanmar
- Chionanthus compactus - Caribbean
- Chionanthus domingensis - Caribbean
- Chionanthus foveolatus - South Africa
- Chionanthus guangxiensis - southeast of China ( Guangxi )
- Chionanthus hainanensis - south of China ( Hainan )
- Chionanthus henryanus - Southwest of China , Myanmar
- Chionanthus holdridgei - Caribbean
- Chionanthus intermedius - India
- Chionanthus ligustrinus - Caribbean
- Chionanthus longiflorus - southwest of China ( Yunnan )
- Chionanthus picrophloia - Australia ( Queensland )
- Chionanthus pubescens - Ecuador , Peru
- Chionanthus pygmaeus - Southeast United States ( Florida )
- Chionanthus quadristamineus - Australia ( Norfolk Island )
- Chionanthus ramiflorus - Australia ( Queensland ), South China , India , Nepal , Vietnam
- Chionanthus retusus - China , Japan , Korea
- Chionanthus sleumeri - Australia ( Queensland )
- Chionanthus virginicus - Eastern United States
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ 1 2 Chionanthus . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). Date of treatment September 4, 2016.
- Chionanthus (neopr.) . Flora of China . Archived on September 23, 2012.
- Stearn, William T. Union of Chionanthus and Linociera (Oleaceae ) // Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden . - Missouri Botanical Garden Press , 1976. - Vol. 63 , no. 2 . - P. 355-357 . - DOI : 10.2307 / 2395314 .
- Sunset Western Garden Book , 1995: 606–607