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Barringtonia
''Barringtonia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus with this name in 1775. It is native to Africa, southern Asia, Australia, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The genus name commemorates Daines Barrington. Description Plants in this genus are evergreen trees or shrubs, which may be deciduous or semi-deciduous. Leaves are entire or toothed. Inflorescences are pendulous or (rarely) erect racemes, either , , or cauliflorus. The has four or five lobes (with the exception of ''B. asiatica'', two or three), petals number between three and six. Stamens are numerous, arranged in three to eight whorls. Ovaries are two to four locular, with two to eight ovules per locule. The fruit may be , or , and may be angled or winged. They contain one large seed. Species list The following is a list of all 73 species of ''Barringtonia'' accepted by Plants of the World Online : Gallery File:Barringtonia asiatica - twi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringtonia Asiatica
''Barringtonia asiatica'', known variously as fish poison tree, putat and beach Barrintonia among other names, is a species of plants in the brazil nut family Lecythidaceae. It is native to coastal habitats from Tanzania and Madagascar in the west to tropical Asia, northern Australia, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean. It was described by Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz in 1875 and has a conservation status of least concern. It has been used by a number of traditional cultures as a fish poison. Description This is a tree which will usually grow to a height of about , occasionally to , and a trunk diameter of up to diameter. The trunk is irregularly shaped and often leaning, the bark is dark and coarse. The leaves are , or pear-shaped, being widest at the tip and narrowest at the base. They are glossy green and somewhat waxy, and may reach up to about long and wide. The margin is without lobes and the petiole (leaf stalk) is very short or absent. Flowers are produced in erect r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringtonia Acutangula
''Barringtonia acutangula'' is a species of ''Barringtonia'' native to coastal wetlands in southern Asia and northern Australasia, from Afghanistan east to the Philippines, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Common names include freshwater mangrove, itchytree and mango-pine. Description This plant is a big tree that grows to about 8–15 m high. Its leaves are thick, smooth and oval in shape, about 8–12 cm long and 4–5 cm wide, with reddish petioles about 0.5–1.0 cm long. The plant has drooping raceme of up to 50 cm long, with numerous large, white flowers. Its fruit is oval-shaped and about 3 cm long, with 1 seed inside. Uses Food The young leaves of this plant are consumed as food, such as in Vietnam where they are eaten fresh with other vegetables, meat and shrimp. Medicinal Research on this plant has reported a number of medicinal uses, including antitumor (seed extract), antibiotic, inhibition of growth of ''Helicobacter pylori'', antino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringtonia Calyptrata
''Barringtonia calyptrata'' is a species of mangrove belonging to the family Lecythidaceae. It is native to New Guinea and to northern Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr .... Gallery File:Barringtonia calyptrata, tree.jpg, Tree growing in Redlynch, Queensland, Australia File:Barringtonia calyptrata flowers 1.jpg, Flowers File:Barringtonia calyptrata flowers 2.jpg, Flowers File:Barringtonia calyptrata fruit 1.jpg, Fruits File:Barringtonia calyptrata fruit 2.jpg, Fruit (scale bar 1 cm intervals) References External links * calyptrata Flora of Queensland Flora of New Guinea Plants described in 1875 {{Lecythidaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barringtonia Conoidea
''Barringtonia conoidea'' is a plant in the family Lecythidaceae. Description ''Barringtonia conoidea'' grows as a shrub or small tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . The fruits are conical, winged, up to long. Distribution and habitat ''Barringtonia conoidea'' is native to Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. Its habitat is mangrove forest and along rivers. References conoidea Conoidea is a Taxonomic rank, superfamily of predatory sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusc, mollusks within the suborder Hypsogastropoda. This superfamily is a very large group of marine mollusks, estimated at 340 recent valid gen ... Flora of Myanmar Flora of Vietnam Flora of Sumatra Flora of Malaya Flora of Borneo Plants described in 1854 Taxa named by William Griffith (botanist) {{Lecythidaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lecythidaceae
The Lecythidaceae ( ) comprise a family of about 20 genera and 250–300 species of woody plants native to tropical South America, Africa (including Madagascar), Asia and Australia. Well known members of the family include the cannonball tree (''Couroupita guianensis'') and the edible Brazil nut (''Bertholletia excelsa''). Taxonomy According to molecular analysis of Lecythidaceae, including work by Mori ''et al.'' (2007), subfamilies include: Barringtonioidea Previously Barringtoniaceae; also ''sensu'' Takhtajan 1997; this subfamily was also called Planchonioideae (which included ''Barringtonia''). Genera are restricted to the Old World tropics. # '' Barringtonia'' J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (synonym ''Abdulmajidia'' Whitmore) # '' Careya'' Roxb. # '' Chydenanthus'' Miers # '' Petersianthus'' Merr. # '' Planchonia'' Blume Foetidioideae Previously Foetidiaceae from Madagascar is monogeneric: * '' Foetidia'' Comm. ex Lam. Lecythidoideae Genera restricted to the New World tropic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
