Apodytes dimidiata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Metteniusales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Asterids Cladus: Lamiids Ordo: Metteniusales

Familia: Metteniusaceae
Genus: Apodytes
Species: Apodytes dimidiata

Name

Apodytes dimidiata E.Mey. ex Arn., J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 155, in obs. (1840)

Synonymy

Apodytes benthamiana Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. [Wight] t. 1153 (1846)
Apodytes acutifolia Hochst. ex A.Rich., Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 92 (1847)
Apodytes gardneriana Miers, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, 9(53): 389 (1852)
Icacina mauritiana Miers, Contrib. i. 56. t. 4. (1862)
Hemilobium ficifolium Welw., Synopse 20 (1862)
Apodytes beddomei Mast., Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 1(3): 588 (1875)
Apodytes mauritiana (Miers) Planch. ex Baker, Fl. Mauritius 48 (1877)
Apodytes emirnensis Baker, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 22: 458 (1887)
Pterocelastrus macrostylus Hochst. ex Szyszył., Pl. Rehm. ii. (1888) 31
Apodytes cambodiana Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochinch. (1892) t. 267
Apodytes inversa Baill., Hist. pl. Madag., Atlas (1892) t. 236
Apodytes curtisii Dyer ex King, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 62(2): 392 (1893)
Apodytes stuhlmannii Engl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17(1-2): 71 (1893)
Apodytes frappieri Cordem., Fl. Réunion (E.J. de Cordemoy) (1895) 377
Apodytes javanica Koord. & Valeton, Bull. Inst. Bot. Buitenzorg ii. 3 (1899)
Apodytes tonkinensis Gagnep., Notul. Syst. (Paris) 1: 197 (1910)
Apodytes giung A.Chev., Bull. Écon. Indochine (1918), xx. 817
Apodytes hazomaitso Danguy, Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (1922), xxviii. 249
Apodytes bequaertii De Wild., Pl. Bequaert. 2: 79 (1923)
Mappia philippinensis Merr., Philipp. J. Sci. 26: 467 (1925)
Jobalboa aberdarica Chiov., Racc. Bot. 20 (1935)
Neoleretia philippinensis (Merr.) Baehni, Candollea vii. 180 (1936)
Nothapodytes philippinensis (Merr.) Sleumer, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 247 (1940)
Apodytes yunnanensis Hu, Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. Bot. 10: 154 (1940)
Nothapodytes zeylanica Kosterm., Acta Bot. Neerl. 31(1–2): 127 (1982)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Africa
- West Tropical Africa
  - Nigeria
- West-Central Tropical Africa
  - Burundi, Cameroon, Rwanda, Zaïre
- Northeast Tropical Africa
  - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan
- East Tropical Africa
  - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
- South Tropical Africa
  - Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
- Southern Africa
  - Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Provinces, Swaziland
- Western Indian Ocean
  - Aldabra, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion
Asia-Temperate
- China
  - China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan
Asia-Tropical
- Indian Subcontinent
  - Assam, India, Sri Lanka
- Indo-China
  - Cambodia, Myanmar Thailand, Vietnam
- Malesia
  - Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

E.Mey., 1849. J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 155

Additional references

Linnaea; Ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange. Berlin 12:136. 1838

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2024. Apodytes dimidiata in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2024 February 11. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2024. Apodytes dimidiata. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2024. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2024 February 11. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2024. Apodytes dimidiata. Published online. Accessed: February 11 2024.
Tropicos.org 2024. Apodytes dimidiata. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 February 2024.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Apodytes dimidiata in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Vernacular names

Afrikaans: Witpeer
English: White Pear

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