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Accession Data:

Plocama pendula Aiton

  • Common Name:
  • Family: Rubiaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Canary Islands (Spain)
  • Habitat: Mediterranean-climate shrub

  • Description: Canary Island endemic shrub, occurring in dry winter-rainfall Mediterranean vegetation. Weakly dioecious or gynodioecious, with individual plants that are either mostly functionally male (but can set seeds occasionally), or functionally female.

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 202300018
  • Source: GJ Anderson research plants
  • Provenance: 
    GJA 5436, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Male and female plants from wild collected seeds sown 2012.
  • Accession Date: 01-26-2023
  • Bench: 6103 - BPB:6100:Bench3
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 2 confirmed on 06-25-2024
  • Restrictions:

    Classification:

    • Division: Magnoliophyta
    • Class: Magnoliopsida
    • SubClass: euasterid I
    • Order: Gentianales
    • SubOrder:
    • Family: Rubiaceae
    • SubFamily: Rubioideae
    • Tribe: Putorieae
    • SubTribe:

    References (internal):

    • Dioecious species in the EEB Greenhouse Collection
    • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Canary Is.

    References (external):

      Anderson, Gregory J., Julia Perez de Paz, Mona Anderson, Gabriel Bernardello and David Taylor. 2021. A ‘leaky’ dimorphic sexual system and breeding system characterize a successful island colonist: The reproductive biology of Plocama pendula (Rubiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-16. doi: 10.1093/botlinnean/boab026

    data regenerated on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:48:28 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

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    W/C = Wild Collected
    = indicates flowering in past 14 days
    = images available for this accession
    = map available for this accession
    = accession added within past 90 days
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