Stewartia ovata

Stewartia ovata

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Theaceae
Tribus: Stewartieae
Genus: Stewartia
Sectio: S. sect. Dialystyla
Species: Stewartia ovata

Name

Stewartia ovata (Cav.) Weath. (1939)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Malachodendron ovatum Cav., Diss. 5: 302, plate 158, fig. 2. 1787.

• Heterotypic
  • Malachodendron pentagynum (L'Hér.) Dum.Cours., Bot. Cult., ed. 2. 5: 107. 1811.
  • Malachodendron pentagynum (L'Hér.) Small, Fl. S.E. U.S., ed. 1, 793. 1903, comb. inval.
  • Malachodendron pentagynum var. grandiflorum (Bean) Ashe, Torreya 31(2): 41. 1931.
  • Malachodendron pentagynum var. grandiflorum (Bean) Alexander, Addisonia 19: 1 1935, comb. inval.
  • Stewartia ovata f. grandiflora (Bean) Kobuski, J. Arnold Arbor. 40(4): 419. 1959.
  • Stewartia ovata var. grandiflora (Bean) Weath., Rhodora 41(486): 198. 1939.
  • Stewartia pentagyna L'Hér., Stirp. Nov. 6: 155 (-156; t. 74). 1791.
  • Stewartia pentagyna var. grandiflora Bean, Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isles 2: 555. 1914.

References

• Bean, W.J. 1980: Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles 4: 510.
• eFloras 2008. Stewartia ovata in Flora of North America. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
• USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Stewartia ovata in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.
• Weatherby, C.A. 1939: Rhodora 41: 198.

Vernacular names

English: Mountain Camellia

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