Cartrema

Cartrema
Cartrema americana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Oleaceae
Tribe: Oleeae
Subtribe: Oleinae
Genus: Cartrema
Raf.
Synonyms
  • Pausia Raf. nom. inval.
  • Amarolea Small

Cartrema is a genus of a few species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, native to southeastern Asia, southern China, and North America (Mexico, Central America, southeastern United States), formerly treated as section Leiolea of Osmanthus. Species of Cartrema may be distinguished from those of Osmanthus by the paniculate inflorescences of the former.

Species

Species accepted:

  1. Cartrema americana (L.) G.L.Nesom – Devilwood – southeastern US from Texas to Virginia; eastern and southern Mexico
  2. Cartrema floridana (Chapm.) G.L.Nesom - Florida
  3. Cartrema marginata (Champ. ex Benth.) de Juana – Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Vietnam, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  4. Cartrema matsumurana (Hayata) de Juana – Assam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  5. Cartrema minor (P.S.Green) de Juana – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
  6. Cartrema scortechinii (King & Gamble) de Juana – Thailand, Sumatra, Pen Malaysia
  7. Cartrema sumatrana (P.S.Green) de Juana – Sumatra

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nesom, G.L. 2012. Synopsis of American Cartrema (Oleaceae). Phytoneuron 2012-96: 1–11.
  2. ↑ Shi-Quan Guo, Min Xiong, Chun-Feng Ji, Zhi-Rong Zhang, De-Zhu Li and Zhi-Yong Zhang, Molecular phylogenetic reconstruction of Osmanthus Lour. (Oleaceae) and related genera based on three chloroplast intergenic spacers, Plant Syst Evol (2011) 294:57–64
  3. ↑ José Ignacio De Juana Clavero, Cambios nomenclaturales en la sección Leiolea (Spach) P. S. Green, del género Osmanthus Lour. (Oleaceae), Bouteloua 22: 28-39 (XI-2015)