Crossopetalum, commonly known as Christmas-berries or maiden berries, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Celastraceae. It comprises about 30-40 species.[2]
| Maiden berries | |
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| A species of Crossopetalum, C. rhacoma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Genus: | Crossopetalum P.Browne |
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Description
editCrossopetalum taxa are shrubs or trees, with opposite or whorled persistent leaves with petiole and stipules. Inflorescences are axillary, regrouping white, pale green, reddish, or purplish radially symmetric flowers, with four sepals, four petals, and a four-carpellate pistil. Intrastaminal nectaries are annular and fleshy. Fruits are red drupes, with one-two seeds per fruit.[3] It blooms and fruits all year long[1].
Etymology
editThe etymology of the genus name Crossopetalum derives from the two Ancient Greek words κροσσός (krossós), meaning "fringe", and πέταλον (pétalon), meaning "leaf of a flower".[4][5] It alludes to the fimbriate petals of the type species (C. rhacoma).[3]
The synonym name Myginda is a taxonomic anagram derived from the name of the confamilial genus Gyminda. The latter name is a taxonomic patronym honoring Franz von Mygind (1710 - 1789), a Danish-Austrian court official, who traveled to Barbados, collected plants with herbarium specimens hosted in the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest, and was a friend of Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.[6]
Systematics
editAccording to Plants of the World Online, 36 species are recognized.[7]
- Crossopetalum aquifolium (Griseb.) Hitchc.
- Crossopetalum bokdamii Breteler & Buerki
- Crossopetalum coriaceum Northr.
- Crossopetalum cristalense Borhidi
- Crossopetalum decussatum (Baill.) Lourteig
- Crossopetalum densiflorum Lundell
- Crossopetalum ekmanii (Urb.) Alain
- Crossopetalum enervium Hammel
- Crossopetalum filipes (Sprague) Lundell
- Crossopetalum gaumeri (Loes.) Lundell
- Crossopetalum glabrum Lundell
- Crossopetalum gomezii Lundell
- Crossopetalum ilicifolium (Poir.) Kuntze
- Crossopetalum lanceifolium (Lundell) Lundell
- Crossopetalum lobatum Lundell
- Crossopetalum macrocarpum (Brandegee) Lundell
- Crossopetalum managuatillo (Loes.) Lundell
- Crossopetalum minimiflorum Lundell
- Crossopetalum mossambicense I.Darbysh.
- Crossopetalum orientale Mory
- Crossopetalum oxyphyllum (S.F.Blake) Lundell
- Crossopetalum panamense Lundell
- Crossopetalum parviflorum (Hemsl.) Lundell
- Crossopetalum parvifolium L.O.Williams
- Crossopetalum pungens (C.Wright) Rothm.
- Crossopetalum rhacoma Crantz
- Crossopetalum riparium (Lundell) Lundell
- Crossopetalum rostratum (Urb.) Rothm.
- Crossopetalum scoparium (Hook. & Arn.) Kuntze
- Crossopetalum serrulatum (Loes.) I.Darbysh.
- Crossopetalum shaferi (Britton & Urb.) Alain
- Crossopetalum standleyi (Lundell) Lundell
- Crossopetalum subsessile L.O.Williams
- Crossopetalum ternifolium (Urb.) Alain
- Crossopetalum theodes (Benth.) Kuntze
- Crossopetalum uragoga (Jacq.) Kuntze
References
edit- ^ Grandtner, M. M. (2005-04-08). Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees: Volume 1: North America. Elsevier. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-08-046018-5.
- ^ Austin, Daniel F. (2004-11-29). Florida Ethnobotany. CRC Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-203-49188-1.
- ^ a b "Crossopetalum - Flora of North America (FNA)". beta.semanticfna.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
- ^ Bailly, Anatole (1981-01-01). Abrégé du dictionnaire grec français. Paris: Hachette. ISBN 978-2010035289. OCLC 461974285.
- ^ Bailly, Anatole. "Greek-french dictionary online". www.tabularium.be. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018-06-06). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée (in German). Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. p. G54. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5.
- ^ "Crossopetalum P.Browne | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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