Reevesia

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Reevesia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/reevesia/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Family

  • Sterculiaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
ovary
Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.
adnate
Fused with a different part by having grown together. (Cf. connate.)
alternate
Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
campanulate
Bell-shaped.
capsule
Dry dehiscent fruit; formed from syncarpous ovary.
corymbose
In form of corymb.
entire
With an unbroken margin.
exserted
Protruding; pushed out.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
ovary
Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.
sessile
Lacking a stem or stalk.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Reevesia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/reevesia/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A genus of three or four evergreen shrubs or trees in the Himalaya, the Khasi Hills, Burma, China, and parts of Malaysia. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers white in terminal corymbose panicles. Calyx funnel-shaped or campanulate, unequally toothed. Petals five, clawed. Ovary borne on a long-exserted gynophore. Staminal column adnate to the gynophore, terminated by a globose cluster of sessile anthers, which enclose the ovary. Fruit a woody, five-valved capsule.

The genus is revised by J. Anthony in Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edin., Vol. 15 (1926), pp. 121–9. It is named after John Reeves senior (1774–1856), who introduced many Chinese plants to Britain during his service with the East India Company at Macao and Canton.