Petalostigma

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Petalostigma
Petalostigma pubescens foliage and flowers.jpg
Petalostigma pubescens
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Picrodendraceae
Tribe: Caletieae
Subtribe: Petalostigmatinae
Genus: Petalostigma
F.Muell.
Type species
Petalostigma quadriloculare
Synonyms [2]

HylococcusR.Br. ex T.Mitch.

Petalostigma is a genus of plants under the family Picrodendraceae and the monogeneric subtribe Petalostigmatinae, first defined by von Mueller in 1857. [3] [4] [1] It is native to New Guinea and Australia. [2] [5] They are evergreen, dioecious shrubs or trees. [6]

In local medicine, pregnancy is said to be avoided by eating the fruit of the quinine bush ( Petalostigma pubescens ), which does not actually contains quinine. Another example is Petalostigma triloculare which features exploding fruit.

species [2]
  1. Petalostigma banksii - Northern Territory, Queensland
  2. Petalostigma pachyphyllum - Queensland
  3. Petalostigma pubescens - quinine berry, quinine bush, quinine tree - Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Northern Territory, New South Wales, Western Australia
  4. Petalostigma quadriloculare - Queensland, Northern Territory, Western Australia
  5. Petalostigma triloculare - Queensland

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References

  1. 1 2 Tropicos, Petalostigma F. Muell.
  2. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Mueller, Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von. 1857. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 9: 16-17 in Latin
  4. "Petalostigma F.Muell". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
  5. Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. P.C. Van Welzen; Paul I Forster (1999). "The Malesian species of Choriceras, Fontainea, and Petalostigma (Euphorbiaceae)". Blumea Journal of Plant Taxonomy and Plant Geography. 44 (1): 99–107.