Apodytes dimidiata

TaxonavigationEdit

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

NameEdit

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

SynonymyEdit

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)

DistributionEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

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

Afrikaans: Witpeer
English: White Pear

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