Visnea

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Visnea
Visnea mocanera

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Pentaphylacaceae
Genus: Visnea
L.f.
(1782)
Species:
V. mocanera
Binomial name
Visnea mocanera
L.f. (1782)
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Mocanera Juss. (1789)
  • Mocanera canariensis J.St.-Hil. (1805)
  • Visnea canariensis Oken (1841)

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

strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark.[9]

References

  1. . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Visnea L.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. ^ Visnea mocanera L.f. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 6 December 2023.
  4. ^ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, retrieved 2014-09-18
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  6. ^ Marcelino J. del Arco Aguilar and Octavio Rodríguez Delgado Vegetation of the Canary Islands (2018 ), p. 321, at Google Books
  7. S2CID 187926901
    . Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Barbacenia", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-02-10
  9. ^ 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