Pinckney ( lat. Pinckneya ) - a genus of woody plants of the family Marenovye ( Rubiaceae ). It includes a single species - pubescent , or fluffy , or softly pubescent ( Pinckneya pubens ).
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The genus is named after the American politician Charles Coatesworth Pinckney [2] .
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Distribution
Endemic to the southeastern United States : South Carolina , Georgia and Florida .
Botanical Description
Deciduous shrubs or trees , up to 6 (10) m tall. Spreading branches . The leaves are simple, opposite, elliptical or oblong-ovate, (5) 8-20 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, widened near or below the middle, whole, dark green (paler below), pubescent (initially felt); the tip is pointed or short-pointed; wedge-shaped base, gradually narrowed.
The flowers are bisexual, collected near the ends of the branches in sparse branched, small-flowered corymbose inflorescences . Calyx is bell - shaped, of 5 lanceolate lobes (of which 1-2 become dilated, petal - shaped, pink or cream, 3.6-8 cm long). Corolla is wheel-shaped, light yellow or yellowish-green, with red or purple stripes; petals 5, fuse into a narrow tube, 1.4-2.6 cm long, with oblong, shorter than the tube, bent lobes. Five stamens exposed from the tube. Pestle one. The fruit is a round, hemispherical, bivalve box , 2-3 cm long. Seeds are flat.
Synonyms
- Kind
- Pinknea Pers. (1805) , orth. var.
- Kind
- Bignonia bracteata W. Bartram (1791) , nom. nud.
- Cinchona caroliniana Poir. (1804) , nom. illeg.
- Cinchona pubens ( Michx. ) Hosack (1811)
- Pinckneya pubescens Pers. (1805)
- Pinckneya bracteata raf. (1827)
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating 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 .
- ↑ Burkhardt L. Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen: [ him. ] = Index of Eponymic Plant Names = Index de Noms Eponymes des Genres Botaniques. - Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, 2016 .-- S. P-37. - 1119 S. - ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 . - DOI : 10.3372 / epolist2016 .
Literature
- Vasiliev A.V. Genus Pinckneya - Pinckney // Dendroflora of the Caucasus: Wild-growing and cultivated trees and shrubs: in 6 tons / ch. ed. V.Z. Gulisashvili. - Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1986. - T. 6: Dicotyledonous (continued): Myrtle - Compositae / ed. volumes L. B. Makhatadze. - S. 243-244. - 309 p. - 1000 copies.
- Pilipenko F.S. Rod of Pinckney - Pinckneya // Trees and Shrubs of the USSR. Wild, cultivated and promising for introduction. / Ed. volumes S. Ya. Sokolov . - M. - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1962. - T. VI. Angiosperms. Families Loganievye - Composite. - S. 134-135. - 380 s. - 2400 copies.
- Elyse T. S. Pinckneya (Pinckney genus) // North American Trees: Key / Ed. I. Yu. Koropachinsky . - Novosibirsk: Academ. Publishing House "Geo", 2014. - S. 893-894. - 959 p. - 300 copies. - ISBN 978-5-906284-43-3 .