Dysoxylum is a flowering plant genus of trees and shrubs from the mahogany family, Meliaceae.
Aglaia argentea is a species of plant in the family Meliaceae. It is a tree found in Australia, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.
Octomeles is a monotypic genus of plant in family Tetramelaceae. The sole species is Octomeles sumatrana, sometimes written O. sumatranum.
Vaccinium stamineum, commonly known as deerberry, tall deerberry, squaw huckleberry, highbush huckleberry, buckberry, and southern gooseberry, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family. It is native to North America, including Ontario, the eastern and central United States, and parts of Mexico. It is most common in the southeastern United States.
Rubus glaucifolius is a North American species of wild raspberry known by the common name San Diego raspberry. It is native to Oregon and California, where it grows in mountain forests.
Owenia cepiodora is a medium to large Australian tree in the family Meliaceae. It occurs in the rainforests of north eastern New South Wales and adjacent areas in Queensland. The habitat is mostly the drier Hoop Pine rainforests along the state border. Only small regrowth trees remain, as it was heavily logged in earlier times. Its status is now considered vulnerable with a ROTAP rating of 2VCi.
Senna armata is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names spiny senna and desert senna. It is native to the desert regions around the intersection of Nevada, Arizona, eastern California and northern Baja California, where it grows in sandy and rocky habitat, such as arroyos. It is a shrub growing up to a meter tall, its grooved, branching stems often narrowing to thorns at their tips. The spiny branches are coated in tubular hairs which help protect it from hot desert air. The spine-tipped leaves are each made up of two to four pairs of small leaflets. The leaves are ephemeral, dropping soon after emerging, leaving the shrub naked most of the time. Flowers occur singly or in small clusters in leaf axils. They are fragrant and showy, with five petals in shades of yellow to salmon pink, each measuring roughly a centimeter long. The fruit is a legume pod up to 4 centimeters long.
Harmsiopanax ingens of the Gensing, or Ivy Family (Araliaceae), is a very spiney palmlike mesocaul tree endemic to the montane rainforests of central New Guinea which bears a terminal rosette of deeply lobed, meter-wide dentate margined, peltate leaves on equally long petioles. It ultimately attains a height of eighteen meters, at which point it bears a huge panicle of flowers five meters high and equally wide; the largest above ground inflorescence of any dicot plant (although Caloncoba flagelliflora and Ficus geocarpa and Ficus unciata var. strigosa have larger subsurface panicles, each about nine meters in length. H. ingens' panicles are very unusual; the ultimate twigs being spikes each bearing about fifty tiny umbels, each umbel with 8 to 20 minute flowers. So panicle, spike and umbel are all represented in a single inflorescence. Harmsiopanax ingens is monocarpic, and again the largest such plant among dicots. H. ingens was discovered in 1973 by W. R. Philipson. Its native name is "makua".
Chisocheton is a genus of trees in the family Meliaceae. The genus name comes from the Greek schizos and chiton meaning "split tunic", referring to the lobed staminal tube of C. patens. Their range is from India and tropical China, throughout Malesia and south to New South Wales and Vanuatu.
Chisocheton macranthus is a tree in the family Meliaceae. The specific epithet macranthus is from the Greek meaning "large-flowered".
Chisocheton pentandrus is a tree in the family Meliaceae. The specific epithet pentandrus is from the Greek meaning "five man", referring to the five stamens of each flower.
Chisocheton pentandrus subsp. paucijugus is a subspecies of Chisocheton pentandrus. It is a tree in the Meliaceae family. The specific epithet paucijugus is from the Latin meaning "few yokes", referring to the few leaflets.
Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum, commonly known as ivory mahogany, is a species of rainforest tree in the family Meliaceae, native to Malesia, Queensland, and some southwest Pacific islands.
Saurauia copelandii is a species of plant in the Actinidiaceae family. It is native to the Philippines. Adolph Daniel Edward Elmer, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it in honor of Edwin Copeland, another American botanist who collected many botanical samples in the Philippines.
Salix appendiculata is a plant from the willow genus (Salix). They can be found in France, Italy, Central and Eastern Europe, and on the Balkan Peninsula.
Anthocleista vogelii commonly called "Murderer's Mat" or "Cabbage Tree" in several countries in Africa is a rainforest tree ultimately reaching to eighty feet in height with leaves in opposite pairs up to 14 inches long and five inches in width in adult trees. Juvenile trees are noteworthy in bearing enormous leaves up to 7.5 feet in length by about 18 inches wide with wavey edges, in opposite pairs, with nodes spaced about four inches apart. These are the largest leaves of any African Dicot.
Ficus salomonensis of the Solomon Islands is a palm-like sparingly branching mesocaul rainforest tree to about 26 feet in height. The main trunk and each branch of juvenile trees is topped by a rosette of huge leaves which are entire oblanceolate in form and up to 200 centimeters in length by 60 cm wide The adult trees have leaves up to 80 centimeters long by 30 cm in width. The fruit (syconia) are borne in clusters mostly on the trunk (cauliflory). It was discovered in 1912 but was not seen again until 1961 when it was re-discovered by E. J. H. Corner.
Chisocheton pohlianus belonging to the Mahogany Family (Meliaceae), is a small, lower story, leptocaul rainforest tree from New Guinea no more than 26 feet in height and 2.75 inches thick. Like all Chisocheton species it has indeterminate, pinnate leaves in this case up to 6 ft 7in in length and having as many as 28 pairs of leaflets at any given time. Each time the tiny circinate bud at the tip of the leaf forms a new pair of leaflets, the leaf simultaneously produces, further back, a small 2 inch (5 cm) inflorescence, but not at the same spot as where a pair of leaflets are attached, but halfway between two pairs of leaflets. The jury is still out as to whether these are inflorescences fused to a leaf or whether the leaves have assumed reproductive function. The difficulty is in reconciling an indeterminate leaf with determinate inflorescences. The flowers are tubular, about one-half inch in length with 3 to ten petals, crème de menthe in color and said to have the fragrance of Cymbopogon.
Chisocheton macrophyllus in the Mahogany family (Meliaceae) is a pachycaul rainforest tree of the East Indies and Malay Peninsula with very few upright limbs (reiterations) ultimately reaching a height of 115 feet. Each reiteration is topped by a tight rosette of once-pinnate leaves up to ten feet in length with up to 28 pairs of leaflets at any given time, each up to 15.5 inches long by 4.5 inches (11 centimeters in width. Like all Chisocheton species, these leaves are indeterminate, forming a new pair of leaflets every few weeks or months. while the oldest pair may die. The cream colored flowers, 3/4ths inch long with 4 or 5 petals, are arranged in a thyrse up to 32 inches long, followed by pyriform capsules up to six inches in diameter with 2 to 4 seeds each the size and shape of a brazilnut.
Chisocheton polyandrus, of the Mahogany Family (Meliaceae), is a species of pachycaulous, unbranched trees variously called "palmoids", "maypole trees" or "Corner Model Trees" occurring among several families of unrelated trees. C. polyandrus is native to Borneo, and grows up to a height of 49 feet in height, and may have small buttress roots or even prop roots. It is topped by a tight circle of indeterminate, once-pinnate leaves up to 5.5 feet in length, which may eventually have up to fourteen pairs of leaflets, acquired one pair at a time over a period of several months or years, each leaflet measuring up to 17 inches long by 5.5 inches in width. In mature leaves the oldest pair may die when a new pair is formed. The unbranched inflorescences are up to 6.5 feet long with the flowers occupying just the last foot or so, eventually hanging straight down as the weight of the fruit increases. The flowers are tubular, one to 1.25 inches in length. Petals 5 or 6, white with red blush and having up to 14 stamens. The fruit has three seeds, each covered with a red aril.
