Colubrina
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| Colubrina | |
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| Colubrina asiatica | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Colubrina Rich. ex Brongn.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Colubrina ferruginosa Brongn.[2]
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| Species | |
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Barcena Dugès | |
Colubrina is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Rhamnaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia, northern Australia, and the Indian Ocean islands.
Names
[edit | edit source]Common names include nakedwood, snakewood, greenheart and hogplum. The generic name is derived from the Latin word coluber, meaning "snake", and refers to the snake-like stems or stamens.[3]
Description
[edit | edit source]The species are shrubs and small trees growing 1–10 metres (3.3–32.8 ft) tall, with simple ovate leaves. The flowers are small, greenish-white or yellowish; the fruit is a capsule containing three seeds.
Taxonomy
[edit | edit source]The genus is at least in part a wastebasket taxon, and revision will likely result in the renaming of a number of species to different genera in the future.[4]
Selected species
[edit | edit source]- Colubrina angustior (M.C.Johnst.) G.L.Nesom (eastern Mexico)[5]
- Colubrina arborescens (Mill.) Sarg. – Greenheart (southern Florida, southern Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America)
- Colubrina articulata (Capuron) Figueiredo
- Colubrina asiatica (L.) Brongn. – Asian nakedwood, ʻĀnapanapa kukuku (Hawaiian)[6] (Indo-Pacific)
- Colubrina beccariana Warb. (Malaysia)
- Colubrina californica I.M.Johnst. – Las Animas nakedwood
- Colubrina cubensis (Jacq.) Brongn. – Cuban nakedwood (southern Florida, The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba)
- Colubrina decipiens (Baill.) Capuron
- Colubrina elliptica (Sw.) Brizicky & W.L.Stern – mabi, soldierwood (Florida Keys, Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, Venezuela)
- Colubrina ferruginosa Brongn.
- Colubrina glandulosa Perkins – glandular nakedwood
- Colubrina greggii S.Watson – Sierra nakedwood
- Colubrina humbertii (H.Perrier) Capuron
- Colubrina nicholsonii Van Wyk & Schrire – Pondo snakewood, Pondo weeping thorn, Afrikaans: Pondo-treurdoring[7]
- Colubrina oppositifolia Brongn. ex H.Mann – kauila (Hawaii)
- Colubrina pedunculata Baker f. (Christmas Island)
- Colubrina pubescens Kurz
- Colubrina stricta Engelm. ex M.C.Johnst. – Comal nakedwood
- Colubrina texensis (Torr. & A.Gray) A.Gray – snakewood or Texan hogplum (Texas, northern Mexico)
- Colubrina verrucosa (Urb.) M.C.Johnst. – Urban's nakedwood[8][9][10]
- Colubrina yucatanensis (M.C.Johnst.) G.L.Nesom (Yucatán Peninsula)[5]
Formerly placed here
[edit | edit source]- Alphitonia excelsa (Fenzl) Reissek ex Benth. (as C. excelsa Fenzl)[9]
Ecology
[edit | edit source]Colubrina species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bucculatrix kendalli which feeds exclusively on C. texensis. Colubrina asiatica, native to tropical Asia, eastern Africa and northern Australia, has become an invasive species in Florida.
Uses
[edit | edit source]In the Caribbean, the leaves and/or fruit and in some cases the bark of some species such as Colubrina elliptica (soldierwood) are used to produce a soft drink called mauby.
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External links
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