Visnea

Visnea
Visnea mocanera
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Pentaphylacaceae
Genus:	Visnea L.f. (1782)
Species:	V. mocanera
Binomial name
Visnea mocanera L.f. (1782)
Synonyms [2] [3]
MocaneraJuss. (1789) Mocanera canariensisJ.St.-Hil. (1805) Visnea canariensisOken (1841)

Visnea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in family Pentaphylacaceae. ^[4] The genus contains a single species, Visnea mocanera a tree native to the Canary Islands and Madeira. ^[2]

The fruits of the tree (known as Mocan) are edible. ^{[5] [6]}

The genus name of Visnea is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal. ^[7] The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782, and published in Suppl. Pl. on page 36. ^[2]

Note; VisneaSteud. ex Endl. is a synonym of Barbacenia , a genus in a different family. ^[8]

Fossil record

Four fossil seeds of a Visnea sp. have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark. ^[9]

References

1. da Silva Menezes de Sequeira, M.P.; Fernandes, F.; Beech, E. (2017). "Visnea mocanera". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 e.T30338A102000773. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T30338A102000773.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021.
2. "Visnea L.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
3. Visnea mocanera L.f. Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 6 December 2023.
4. Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website , retrieved 2014-09-18
5. Hernández-Pérez, Margarita; Frı́as, Juana; Rabana, Rosa; Vidal-Valverde, Concepción (September 1994). "Proximate Composition of "Mocan" (Visnea mocanera L.f.): A Fruit Consumed by Canary Natives Author links open overlay panell". Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 7 (3): 203–207. doi:10.1006/jfca.1994.1020.
6. Marcelino J. del Arco Aguilar and Octavio Rodríguez Delgado Vegetation of the Canary Islands (2018 ) , p. 321, at Google Books
7. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition[Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN   978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID   187926901.
8. "Barbacenia", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families , Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , retrieved 2018-02-10
9. Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985