Dillenia

Dillenia is a genus of flowering evergreen or semi-evergreen trees and shrubs in the family Dilleniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Australasia, and the Indian Ocean islands.[7]: 154–156 [5][8]

Dillenia
Dillenia indica (type species)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Dilleniales
Family: Dilleniaceae
Genus: Dillenia
L.[1][2]
Type species
Dillenia indica
L.[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[3][2][4][5][6]

Lenidia Thouars
Neowormia Hutch. & Summerh.
Reifferscheidia C.Presl
Wormia Rottb.

The genus is named after the German botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius.[9]

Structure

The leaves are simple and spirally arranged. They are generally large, in the case of D. reticulata reaching 1.27 meters (4.2 feet) in length[10] and about 16 inches (41 centimeters) wide. The flowers are solitary, or in terminal racemes, with five sepals and five petals, numerous stamens (up to 900 in the case of D. ovalifolia,[11] and a cluster of five to 20 carpels; they are superficially similar in appearance to Magnolia flowers.[8]

Species
Dillenia alata in Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Bark details of Dillenia alata
19th-century illustration of Dillenia reifferscheidia

Plants of the World Online currently includes:[3]

  1. Dillenia alata (R.Br. ex DC.) Banks ex Martelli
  2. Dillenia albiflos (Ridl.) Hoogland
  3. Dillenia andamanica C.E.Parkinson
  4. Dillenia aurea Sm.
  5. Dillenia auriculata Martelli
  6. Dillenia beccariana Martelli
  7. Dillenia biflora (A.Gray) Guillaumin
  8. Dillenia blanchardii Pierre
  9. Dillenia bolsteri Merr.
  10. Dillenia borneensis Hoogland
  11. Dillenia bracteata Wight
  12. Dillenia castaneifolia (Miq.) Martelli ex T.Durand & B.D.Jacks.
  13. Dillenia celebica Hoogland
  14. Dillenia crenatifolia Hoogland ex Mabb.
  15. Dillenia cyclopensis Hoogland
  16. Dillenia diantha Hoogland
  17. Dillenia excelsa (Jack) Martelli ex Gilg.
  18. Dillenia fagifolia Hoogland
  19. Dillenia ferruginea (Baill.) Gilg
  20. Dillenia fischeri Merr.
  21. Dillenia grandifolia Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
  22. Dillenia hookeri Pierre
  23. Dillenia indica L.
  24. Dillenia ingens B.L.Burtt
  25. Dillenia insignis (A.C.Sm.) Hoogland
  26. Dillenia insularum Hoogland
  27. Dillenia luzoniensis Merr.
  28. Dillenia mansonii (Gage) Hoogland
  29. Dillenia marsupialis Hoogland
  30. Dillenia megalantha Merr.
  31. Dillenia monantha Merr.
  32. Dillenia montana Diels
  33. Dillenia nalagi Hoogland
  34. Dillenia obovata (Blume) Hoogland
  35. Dillenia ochreata (Miq.) Teijsm. & Binn. ex Martelli
  36. Dillenia ovalifolia Hoogland
  37. Dillenia ovata Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
  38. Dillenia papuana Martelli
  39. Dillenia parkinsonii Hoogland
  40. Dillenia parviflora Griff.
  41. Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
  42. Dillenia philippinensis Rolfe
  43. Dillenia pteropoda (Miq.) Hoogland
  44. Dillenia pulchella (Jack) Gilg
  45. Dillenia quercifolia (C.T.White & W.D.Francis ex Lane-Poole) Hoogland
  46. Dillenia reifferscheidia Fern.-Vill.
  47. Dillenia reticulata King
  48. Dillenia retusa Thunb.
  49. Dillenia salomonensis (C.T.White) Hoogland
  50. Dillenia scabrella (D.Don) Roxb. ex Wall.
  51. Dillenia schlechteri Diels
  52. Dillenia serrata Thunb.
  53. Dillenia sibuyanensis (Elmer) Merr.
  54. Dillenia suffruticosa (Griff.) Martelli
  55. Dillenia sumatrana Miq.
  56. Dillenia talaudensis Hoogland
  57. Dillenia tetrapetala Joongku Lee, T.B.Tran & R.K.Choudhary
  58. Dillenia triquetra (Rottb.) Gilg
  59. Dillenia turbinata Finet & Gagnep.

References
  1. In: Species Plantarum 1: 535. 1753. "Name – Dillenia L." Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 20, 2010. Type Specimens: Dillenia indica
  2. GRIN (September 17, 1996). "Dillenia information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  3. "Dillenia (Griff. ex Hook.f. & Thomson)". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  4. "Name – Dillenia L. synonyms". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  5. GRIN. "Species in GRIN for genus Dillenia". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived from the original on December 1, 2000. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  6. "Name – Dillenia L. subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
  7. Hoogland, R. G. (1972). "Dilleniaceae". Flora Malesiana. 4 (1): 141–174 – via Naturalis Institutional Repository.
  8. Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-47494-5.
  9. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  10. Fayaz, Ahmed (2011). Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books. p. 339.
  11. Hoogland, R. D. (December 1951). "Dilleniaceae". Flora Malesiana. 4 (series 1 part3: 204.
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