Dillenia

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Dillenia
Dillenia indica
Dillenia indica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Dilleniales
Family: Dilleniaceae
Genus: Dillenia
Species

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Dillenia is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the family Dilleniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Australasia, and the Indian Ocean islands.[1][2]

The genus is named after the German Botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius, and consists of evergreen or semi-evergreen trees and shrubs. The leaves are simple, spirally arranged The flowers are solitary, or in terminal racemes, with five sepals and five petals, numerous stamens and a cluster of 5-20 carpels; they are superficially similar in appearance to Magnolia flowers.[2]

Selected species
  • Dillenia alata
  • Dillenia burbidgei (Hook.f.) Gilg
  • Dillenia indica L.
  • Dillenia mindanaensis Elmer
  • Dillenia ovata Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
  • Dillenia philippinensis Rolfe
  • Dillenia reifferscheidia Fern.-Vill.
  • Dillenia suffruticosa (Griff. ex Hook.f. & Thomson) Martelli

[edit] References

  1. ^ Germplasm Resources Information Network: Dillenia
  2. ^ a b Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.

19th century illustration of Dillenia reifferscheidia
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