Dillenia

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Dilleniales

Familia: Dilleniaceae
Genus: Dillenia
Species: D. alata – D. albiflos – D. andamanica – D. aurea – D. auriculata – D. beccariana – D. biflora – D. blanchardii – D. bolsteri – D. borneensis – D. bracteata – D. castaneifolia – D. celebica – D. crenatifolia – D. cyclopensis – D. diantha – D. excelsa – D. eximia – D. fagifolia – D. ferruginea – D. fischeri – D. hookeri – D. indica – D. ingens – D. insignis – D. insularum – D. luzoniensis – D. mansonii – D. marsupialis – D. megalantha – D. monantha – D. montana – D. nalagi – D. obovata – D. ochreata – D. ovalifolia – D. ovata – D. papuana – D. parkinsonii – D. parviflora – D. pentagyna – D. philippinensis – D. pteropoda – D. pulchella – D. quercifolia – D. reifferscheidia – D. reticulata – D. retusa – D. salomonensis – D. scabrella – D. schlechteri – D. serrata – D. sibuyanensis – D. suffruticosa – D. sumatrana – D. talaudensis – D. tetrapetala – D. triquetra – D. turbinata
Name

Dillenia L. (1753).

Type species: D. indica
L.

Synonyms

Homotypic
Lenidia Thouars, Gen. Nova Madag. 17 (1806).
Syalita Adans., Fam. 2: 364 (1763).

Heterotypic
Capellenia Hassk., Cat. Hort. Bog. Alt. 178 (1844).
Typus: non design.
Capellia Blume, Bijdr. 5 (1825).
Typus: non design.
Colbertia Salisb., Parad. Lond. ad t. 73 (1807).
Typus: C. coromandeliana DC., nom. illeg. = Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
Clugnia Comm. ex DC.
Dilema Griff., Notul. Pl. Asiat. (Posthum. Pap.) 4: 705 (1854).
Typus: C. multiflora = Dillenia excelsa Miq.
Neowormia Hutch. & Summerh.
Reifferscheidia C.Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 2: 74. t. 62 (1836), Reifferschiedia Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. 7: 413, sphalm (1838).
Typus: R. speciosa C.Presl = Dillenia reifferscheidia Villar
Wormia Rottb., Nye Saml. Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Skr. 2: 532 (1783).
Typus: W. triquetra = Dillenia triquetra (Rottb.) Gilg

Homonyms

Dillenia Heist. ex Fabr. = Sherardia L.
Wormia Vahl (1810) = Ancistrocladus Wall.

References

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus I: 535. Reference page.
Farr, E.R. & Zijlstra, G. (eds.) 1996 onwards. Dillenia in Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum). Accessed: 2011 Aug 27.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Dillenia in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Mar. 9. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2020. Dillenia. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2020. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2020 Mar. 9. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Dillenia. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 9 2020.
Hoogland, R.D. 1952. A revision of the genus Dillenia. Blumea 7(1): 1–145.
Tropicos.org 2020. Dillenia. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 9 Mar. 2020.

Dillenia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Dilleniaceae, native to tropical and subtropical regions of southern Asia, Australasia, and the Indian Ocean islands.[4][6]

The genus is named after the German botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius,[7] and consists of evergreen or semi-evergreen trees and shrubs.
Structure

The leaves are simple and spirally arranged. They are generally large, in the case of D. reticulata reaching 1.27 meters (4.2 feet) in length [8] and about 16 inches (41 centimeters) wide. The flowers are solitary, or in terminal racemes, with five sepals and five petals, numerous stamens (up to 900 in the case of D. ovalifolia,[9] and a cluster of five to 20 carpels; they are superficially similar in appearance to Magnolia flowers.[6]
Species
Dillenia alata in Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens
Bark details of Dillenia alata
19th-century illustration of Dillenia reifferscheidia

Plants of the World Online currently includes:[10]

Dillenia alata (R.Br. ex DC.) Banks ex Martelli
Dillenia albiflos (Ridl.) Hoogland
Dillenia andamanica C.E.Parkinson
Dillenia aurea Sm.
Dillenia auriculata Martelli
Dillenia beccariana Martelli
Dillenia biflora (A.Gray) Guillaumin
Dillenia blanchardii Pierre
Dillenia bolsteri Merr.
Dillenia borneensis Hoogland
Dillenia bracteata Wight
Dillenia castaneifolia (Miq.) Martelli ex T.Durand & B.D.Jacks.
Dillenia celebica Hoogland
Dillenia crenatifolia Hoogland ex Mabb.
Dillenia cyclopensis Hoogland
Dillenia diantha Hoogland
Dillenia excelsa (Jack) Martelli ex Gilg.
Dillenia fagifolia Hoogland
Dillenia ferruginea (Baill.) Gilg
Dillenia fischeri Merr.
Dillenia grandifolia Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
Dillenia hookeri Pierre
Dillenia indica L.
Dillenia ingens B.L.Burtt
Dillenia insignis (A.C.Sm.) Hoogland
Dillenia insularum Hoogland
Dillenia luzoniensis Merr.
Dillenia mansonii (Gage) Hoogland
Dillenia marsupialis Hoogland
Dillenia megalantha Merr.
Dillenia monantha Merr.
Dillenia montana Diels
Dillenia nalagi Hoogland
Dillenia obovata (Blume) Hoogland
Dillenia ochreata (Miq.) Teijsm. & Binn. ex Martelli
Dillenia ovalifolia Hoogland
Dillenia ovata Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
Dillenia papuana Martelli
Dillenia parkinsonii Hoogland
Dillenia parviflora Griff.
Dillenia pentagyna Roxb.
Dillenia philippinensis Rolfe
Dillenia pteropoda (Miq.) Hoogland
Dillenia pulchella (Jack) Gilg
Dillenia quercifolia (C.T.White & W.D.Francis ex Lane-Poole) Hoogland
Dillenia reifferscheidia Fern.-Vill.
Dillenia reticulata King
Dillenia retusa Thunb.
Dillenia salomonensis (C.T.White) Hoogland
Dillenia scabrella (D.Don) Roxb. ex Wall.
Dillenia schlechteri Diels
Dillenia serrata Thunb.
Dillenia sibuyanensis (Elmer) Merr.
Dillenia suffruticosa (Griff.) Martelli
Dillenia sumatrana Miq.
Dillenia talaudensis Hoogland
Dillenia tetrapetala Joongku Lee, T.B.Tran & R.K.Choudhary
Dillenia triquetra (Rottb.) Gilg
Dillenia turbinata Finet & Gagnep.

References

In: Species Plantarum 1: 535. 1753. "Name - Dillenia L." Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 20, 2010. "Type Specimens: Dillenia indica"
GRIN (September 17, 1996). "Dillenia information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived from the original on October 4, 2012. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
"Name - Dillenia L. synonyms". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
GRIN. "Species in GRIN for genus Dillenia". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived from the original on December 1, 2000. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
"Name - Dillenia L. subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 27, 2010.
Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-47494-5.
Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
Fayaz, Ahmed (2011). Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books. p. 339.
Hoogland, R. D. (December 1951). "Dilleniaceae". Flora Malesiana. 4 (series 1 part3: 204.
Plants of the World Online: Dillenia L. (retrieved 7 April 2021)