Euptelea

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Ordo: Ranunculales

Familia: Eupteleaceae
Genus: Euptelea
Species: E. pleiosperma – E. polyandra
Name

Euptelea Siebold & Zucc., 1840

Type species: Euptelea polyandra Siebold & Zucc.

References
Primary references

Siebold, P.F.v. & Zuccarini, J.G., 1840. Flora Japonica sive, Plantae Quas in Imperio Japonico Collegit, Descripsit, ex Parte in Ipsis Locis Pingendas Curavit 1: 133.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Euptelea in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Jul 18. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Euptelea. Published online. Accessed: Jul 18 2020.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Euptelea in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Jul 18. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2020. Euptelea. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Jul 18.

Vernacular names
čeština: Jilmovník
Deutsch: Schönulmen
日本語: フサザクラ科
한국어: 에웁텔레아속
русский: Эуптелея
Tiếng Việt: Chi Lĩnh xuân

Euptelea is a genus of two species[2] of flowering plants in the monogeneric family Eupteleaceae. The genus is found from Assam east through China to Japan, and consists of shrubs or small trees:

Euptelea pleiosperma
Euptelea polyandra

The genus was previously placed in the family Trochodendraceae, but the family Eupteleaceae has been recognized by many taxonomists. The APG IV system (2016;[1] unchanged from the APG III system of 2009,[3] the APG II system of 2003 and the APG system of 1998), recognizes it and places it in the order Ranunculales, in the clade eudicots. The family consists of a single genus Euptelea, with two species, native to eastern Asia.

Euptelea polyandra is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the engrailed.

The flowers lack sepals and petals. The anthers are basifixed, and the leaves are arranged in whorls.[4]

The fossil range of the genus extends back to the Paleocene epoch, during much of the Cenozoic it was distributed widely over the Northern Hemisphere.[5]
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. ISSN 0024-4074.
Christenhusz, M. J. M.; Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x, archived from the original on 2017-05-25, retrieved 2010-12-10
Yi Ren, Hong-Fang Li, Liang Zhao, and Peter K. Endress. 2007. "Floral Morphogenesis in Euptelea (Eupteleaceae, Ranunculales)." Annals of Botany 100(2):185-193. (see "External links" below).
Cao, Ya-Nan; Comes, Hans Peter; Sakaguchi, Shota; Chen, Lu-Yao; Qiu, Ying-Xiong (December 2016). "Evolution of East Asia's Arcto-Tertiary relict Euptelea (Eupteleaceae) shaped by Late Neogene vicariance and Quaternary climate change". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 66. doi:10.1186/s12862-016-0636-x. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 4802896. PMID 27001058.