| Dillenia | |
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| Dillenia indica (type species) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Dilleniales |
| Family: | Dilleniaceae |
| Genus: | Dillenia L. |
| Type species | |
| Dillenia indica L. | |
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| Synonyms | |
Dillenia is a genus of evergreen or semi-evergreen trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Dilleniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Australasia, and the Indian Ocean islands.
The genus is named after the German botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius.
Structure
The leaves are simple and spirally arranged. They are generally large, in the case of D. reticulata reaching 1.27 m (4 ft 2 in) in length and about 41 cm (16 in) 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, and a cluster of five to 20 carpels; they are superficially similar in appearance to Magnolia flowers.
Species
As of September 2024, Plants of the World Online recognises the following 60 species:
- Dillenia alata (R.Br. ex DC.) Banks ex Martelli
- Dillenia albiflos (Ridl.) Hoogland
- Dillenia andamanica C.E.Parkinson
- Dillenia aurea Sm.
- Dillenia auriculata Martelli
- Dillenia beccariana Martelli
- Dillenia biflora (A.Gray) Guillaumin
- Dillenia blanchardii Pierre
- Dillenia bolsteri Merr.
- Dillenia borneensis Hoogland
- Dillenia bracteata Wight
- Dillenia castaneifolia (Miq.) Martelli ex T.Durand & B.D.Jacks.
- Dillenia celebica Hoogland
- Dillenia crenatifolia Hoogland ex Mabb.
- Dillenia cyclopensis Hoogland
- Dillenia diantha Hoogland
- Dillenia excelsa (Jack) Gilg
- Dillenia fagifolia Hoogland
- Dillenia ferruginea (Baill.) Gilg
- Dillenia fischeri Merr.
- Dillenia grandifolia Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
- Dillenia hookeri Pierre
- Dillenia indica L.
- Dillenia ingens B.L.Burtt
- Dillenia insignis (A.C.Sm.) Hoogland
- Dillenia insularum Hoogland
- Dillenia luzoniensis Merr.
- Dillenia mansonii (Gage) Hoogland
- Dillenia marsupialis Hoogland
- Dillenia megalantha Merr.
- Dillenia monantha Merr.
- Dillenia montana Diels
- Dillenia nalagi Hoogland
- Dillenia obovata (Blume) Hoogland
- Dillenia ochreata (Miq.) Teijsm. & Binn. ex Martelli
- Dillenia ovalifolia Hoogland
- Dillenia ovata Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
- Dillenia papuana Martelli
- Dillenia parkinsonii Hoogland
- Dillenia parviflora Griff.
- Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
- Dillenia philippinensis Rolfe
- Dillenia pteropoda (Miq.) Hoogland
- Dillenia pulchella (Jack) Gilg
- Dillenia quercifolia (C.T.White & W.D.Francis ex Lane-Poole) Hoogland
- Dillenia reifferscheidia Fern.-Vill.
- Dillenia reticulata King
- Dillenia retusa Thunb.
- Dillenia salomonensis (C.T.White) Hoogland
- Dillenia scabrella (D.Don) Roxb. ex Wall.
- Dillenia schlechteri Diels
- Dillenia serrata Thunb.
- Dillenia sibuyanensis (Elmer) Merr.
- Dillenia suffruticosa (Griff. ex Hook.f. & Thomson) Martelli
- Dillenia sumatrana Miq.
- Dillenia talaudensis Hoogland
- Dillenia tetrapetala Joongku Lee, T.B.Tran & R.K.Choudhary
- Dillenia tirupatiensis J.Swamy & Rasingam
- Dillenia triquetra (Rottb.) Gilg
- Dillenia turbinata Finet & Gagnep.
References
- ^ In: Species Plantarum 1: 535. 1753. "Name – Dillenia L." Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
Type Specimens: Dillenia indica
- 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.
- ^ "Dillenia L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2024. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
- Hoogland, R. G. (1972). "Dilleniaceae". Flora Malesiana. 4 (1): 141–174 – via Naturalis Institutional Repository.
- 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.
- ^ Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-47494-5.
- 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.
- Fayaz, Ahmed (2011). Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books. p. 339.
- Hoogland, R. D. (December 1951). "Dilleniaceae". Flora Malesiana. 4 (series 1 part3: 204.