Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pisonia L., Sp. Pl. 1026-1027 (1753)
Synonymy:
  • = Heimerliodendron Skottsb., Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift 35: 364 (1941)
 Description

Fls perfect, in terminal panicled cymes; calyx funnelform, limb very shortly plicately 5-lobed; stamens mostly 7–8, unequal; filaments expanded and united below. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; stigmas pulvinate, lateral. Fr. enclosed in elongated, 5-ribbed per.; seed oblong, grooved. Shrubs or trees with opp. to subwhorled lvs. Genus perhaps monotypic: Hawaiian, Kermadec, Norfolk and Lord Howe Is, Australia, N.Z.

[From:  Allan  (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1 as Heimerliodendron Skottsb.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Pisonia L.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Connor, H.E.; Edgar, E. 1987: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960–1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983–1986. New Zealand Journal of Botany 25: 115–170.
Green, P.S. 1986: Notes relating to the floras of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands. 2. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 67: 109–122.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Rossetto, E.F.S.; Faria, A.D.; Ruas, P.M.; Ruas, C.F.; Douglas, N.A.; Ribeiro, J.E.L.S. 2019: Clarifying generic delimitation in Nyctaginaceae tribe Pisonieae after more than a century of taxonomy confusion. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 189(4): 378–396.
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