Calatola

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Metteniusales

Familia: Metteniusaceae
Genus: Apodytes
Species: A. abbottii – A. bebile – A. brachystylis – A. clusiifolia – A. dimidiata – A. geldenhuysii – A. grandifolia – A. thouvenotii
Source(s) of checklist:

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Apodytes in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Dec 17. Reference page.

Name

Apodytes E.Mey. ex Arn. J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 155. (1840)

Type species: Apodytes dimidiata E.Mey. ex Arn. J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 155. (1840)

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Hemilobium Welw. Syn. Madeir. Drog. Med. 20. (1862)
Anisomallon Baill. Adansonia 11: 197. (1874)

References

Meyer, E.H.F. 1840. Journal of Botany, being a second series of the Botanical Miscellany 3: 155. BHL
International Plant Names Index. 2016. Apodytes. Published online. Accessed: July 2 2016.
Tropicos.org 2016. Apodytes. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 3 July 2016.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Apodytes in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.
Utteridge, T.M.A. & Schori, M. 2011. Updating Malesian Icacinaceae. Gardens’ Bulletin Singapore 63: 105–118. PDF Reference page.

Apodytes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Metteniusaceae. It was formerly either unplaced as to family or placed in the family Icacinaceae.[1] It consists of about 8 species of evergreen trees, from tropical northeastern Australia, New Caledonia, Africa and Asia. The exact number of species has been revised from 3 to 8, according to The Plant List.[2]

Description

All of the species have simple, smooth-edged, leathery leaves and much-branched panicles of small white flowers with recurving petals and conspicuous stamens. The fruits are small drupes with a fleshly appendage on one side attached to the fruit, termed a pseudoaril.
The African species (Apodytes dimidiata) is grown for its attractive display of white blossom and red and black fruit, as well as for shade, screening and hedges. It is also grown in southern Africa for ornament and timber, and a bark preparation is used to drive out intestinal parasites.
Cultivation

It adapts readily to gardens in warm-temperate to tropical climates, though growth is not particularly fast and it can be kept to large shrub size. A deep fertile soil suits it best but it will grow in poorer soils. Propagate from fresh seed.
Apodytes dimidiata
Species

The original classification included only 3 species, but recently the genus was revised to include 8 species.[2]

Apodytes abbottii Potg. & A.E.van Wyk
Apodytes bebile Labat, R.Rabev. & El-Achkar
Apodytes brachystylis F.Muell.
Apodytes clusiifolia (Baill.) Villiers
Apodytes dimidiata E.Mey. ex Arn.
Apodytes geldenhuysii A.E.van Wyk & Potgieter
Apodytes grandifolia (Miers) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks.
Apodytes thouvenotii Danguy

References

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385.

The Plant List

Botanica Sistematica
Lord, Tony (2003) Flora : The Gardener's Bible : More than 20,000 garden plants from around the world. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-36435-5

Calatola is a genus of flowering plants in the family Metteniusaceae. It was formerly placed in the family Icacinaceae.[1] Its range is from Mexico to Peru. There are nine species.[2] The type species is Calatola mollis.

Calatola columbiana - endemic to Colombia.

Calatola costaricensis - S. Mexico to Peru

Calatola laevigata - Mexico, Belize to Guatemala, El Salvador

Calatola microcarpa - Peru

Calatola mollis - Puebla to Guatemala

Calatola pastazana - Ecuador

Calatola sanquininensis - Colombia

Calatola uxpanapensis - Veracruz to Belize

Calatola venezuelana - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
References

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1111/boj.12385.
Tropicos, botanical information system at the Missouri Botanical Garden - www.tropicos.org