Visnea
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Visnea mocanera | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Ericales |
Family: | Pentaphylacaceae |
Genus: | Visnea L.f. (1782)
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Species: | V. mocanera
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Binomial name | |
Visnea mocanera L.f. (1782)
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Synonyms[2][3] | |
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Visnea is a
monotypic genus of flowering plants in family Pentaphylacaceae.[4] The genus contains a single species, Visnea mocanera a tree native to the Canary Islands and Madeira.[2]
The fruits of the tree (known as Mocan) are edible.[5][6]
The genus name of Visnea is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal.[7] The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782, and published in Suppl. Pl. on page 36.[2]
Note; Visnea Steud. ex Endl. is a synonym of Barbacenia, a genus in a different family.[8]
Fossil record
Four
References
- . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ a b c "Visnea L.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ Visnea mocanera L.f. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
- ^ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, retrieved 2014-09-18
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- ^ Marcelino J. del Arco Aguilar and Octavio Rodríguez Delgado Vegetation of the Canary Islands (2018 ), p. 321, at Google Books
- S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Barbacenia", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-02-10
- ^ Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985