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]
| Visnea | |
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| Visnea mocanera | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Ericales |
| Family: | Pentaphylacaceae |
| Genus: | Visnea L.f. (1782) |
| 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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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
editFour fossil seeds of a Visnea sp. have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark.[9]
References
edit- ^ da Silva Menezes de Sequeira, M.P.; Fernandes, F.; Beech, E. (2017). "Visnea mocanera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T30338A102000773. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T30338A102000773.en. 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
- ^ Hernández-Pérez, Margarita; Frı́as, Juana; Rabana, Rosa; Vidal-Valverde, Concepción (September 1994). "Proximate Composition of "Mocan" (Visnea mocanera L.f.): A Fruit Consumed by Canary Natives Author links open overlay panell". Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 7 (3): 203–207. doi:10.1006/jfca.1994.1020.
- ^ Marcelino J. del Arco Aguilar and Octavio Rodríguez Delgado Vegetation of the Canary Islands (2018 ), p. 321, at Google Books
- ^ 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. 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
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