Vauquelinia corymbosa |
Rosaceae subfam. amygdaloideae |
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slimleaf rosewood |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees, sometimes subshrubs or herbs. | |
Leaves | alternate, sometimes opposite, simple, sometimes pinnately compound; stipules present or absent. |
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Flowers | torus absent or minute; carpels 1–5(–8), distinct or +/- connate (Maleae), free or +/- adnate to hypanthium (many Maleae), styles distinct or +/- connate (some Maleae); ovules (1 or)2(–5+), collateral, clustered, or biseriate. |
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Fruits | follicles aggregated or not, capsules, drupes aggregated or not, aggregated drupelets, pomes, or aggregated nutlets, rarely achenes or aggregated achenes; styles persistent or deciduous, not elongate (elongate in Gillenieae). |
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x | = 8, 9, 15, 17. |
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Vauquelinia corymbosa |
Rosaceae subfam. amygdaloideae |
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Distribution |
TX; Mexico |
HI; North America; Mexico; Central America; South America; Europe; Asia; Africa; Atlantic Islands (Madeira); Australia |
Discussion | Subspecies 6 (1 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Cyanogenic glycosides are usually present in Amygdaloideae; sorbitol is present. The name Amygdaloideae Arnott (1832) has priority over Spiraeoideae Arnott (1832), used by D. Potter et al. (2007), because Amygdalaceae (1820) is an earlier conserved name. Tribes 9, genera 55, species ca. 1300 (9 tribes, 38 genera, 361 species, including 20 hybrids, in the flora) (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 431. | FNA vol. 9, p. 345. |
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Name authority | Bonpland: in A. von Humboldt and A. J. Bonpland, Pl. Aequinoct. 1: 140, plate 40. (1807) | Arnott: Botany, 107. (1832) |
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