Lomatia ferruginea

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Lomatia ferruginea

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Lomatia
Species:
L. ferruginea
Binomial name
Lomatia ferruginea

Lomatia ferruginea, commonly known as fuinque, is a small evergreen tree in the family Proteaceae.

It is native to southern Argentina and Chile,[2] the Patagonia region of South America. In Chile it grows from Curicó Province to Magallanes (35 to 49°). It is found mostly in deep and moist soils.

Description

Lomatia ferruginea grows to 6 metres (20 ft) tall. It is evergreen, with few branches, newly shoots are covered in reddish-brown hairs. Composite, bipinnate, fern-like opposite and petiolate leaves, 13–14 cm long and 8–10 cm wide, green above and reddish-brown below.

The flowers are

style, red bulky and oblique stigma
.

The fruit is a woody dark brown follicle, 3.5-4.0 cm wide and 1 cm long, made up by two valves, thin pedicellate, like a peduncle downwards, upwards prolonged at the style, it has many imbricate seeds, winged and truncated at the tip, 1.5 cm wide and 0.5 mm.

Taxonomy

Antonio José Cavanilles first described the species in 1798 as Embothrium ferrugineum.[2][3] In 1810, Robert Brown transferred it to the genus, Lomatia.[4]

The genus name Lomatia comes from the Greek lomas, because of the seed's edge, and ferruginea from Latin, meaning ferrous or rusty, referring to the reddish-brown color in new buds.

Cultivation and uses

1907 illustration, Curtis's botanical magazine

The wood is valued for its

ornamental tree in Chile. It has been planted in Scotland.[5] and in the Faroe Islands, where it regularly self-seeds[6]

References

  1. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-1.RLTS.T113179050A113310323.en
    . Retrieved 27 November 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Lomatia ferruginea (Cav.) R.Br. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
  3. ^ Cavanilles, A.J. (14 May 1798). Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum. Vol. 4. p. 59, t. 385.
  4. ^ Brown, R. (8 March 1810). "On the Proteaceae of Jussieu". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 10 (1): 200. 
  5. ^ "Lomatia ferruginea". The plant press. Archived from the original on 2009-11-14. Retrieved 2010-04-01.
  6. ^ "Kunning um viðarvøkstur".

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