Adenostoma ( Latin: Adenostoma ) is an oligotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Pink ( Rosaceae ).
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Adenostoma fasciculatum hook. & Arn., 1832 - Chamiz | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Title
The scientific name of the genus is derived from other Greek. ἀδήν - “iron” and στόμα - “mouth”, refers to the glandular cup of flowers.
Description
Evergreen shrubs , sometimes tree-like. Leaves in whorls , less often alternate or incorrectly scattered, small, solid, linear in outline, stiff, sometimes resinous.
The flowers are collected in an apical thick panicle , small, 3-4 mm in diameter. Corolla white. The calyx is five - leafed, with 10 lines, of a reverse conical shape. Stamens in the number 10-15, pistil 1.
The fruit is an achene covered with a becoming stiff cup tube.
Range
The usual component of chaparral , pine-cypress forests , Pignon-juniper woodlands , shore wormwoods .
Adenostomy is one of the most common and characteristic species of chaparral plants in California . Adenostoma fasciculatum is most common in the South Coast Ranges , also distributed in the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges from Mendosino County to Baja California , in addition, on the Channel Islands and in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada . Adenostoma sparsifolium has a disjunctive range, found in isolated areas in southern California and northern Baja California - from San Luis Obispo County to the San Pedro Martir Range .
Value
Adenostoma fasciculatum is used as an anti-rheumatic and disinfectant, Adenostoma sparsifolium - as an emetic, laxative and painkiller, leaves rubbed the places worn by the saddle of a horse.
Views
According to the database of The Plant List , the genus includes 2 species [2] :
- Adenostoma fasciculatum hook. & Arn., 1832 - Chamiz
- Adenostoma sparsifolium torr., 1848
Notes
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Adenostoma . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). Date of treatment January 1, 2017.
Literature
- Jepson, WL A Flora of California. - Berkeley, California, 1936. - Vol. II. - P. 219—222. - 689 p.
- Quattrocchi, U. CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants. - 2012. - P. 87. - 4018 p. - ISBN 978-1-4200-8044-5 .