Maytenus boaria

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Celastrales

Familia: Celastraceae
Genus: Maytenus
Species: Maytenus boaria
Name

Maytenus boaria Molina, Sag. Stor. Nat. Chili 177. 1782.
Synonyms

Boaria chilensis Phil.
Boaria molinae DC.
Celastrus boaria Baill.
Celastrus maytenus Willd.
Celastrus uncinatus Ruiz & Pav.
Maytenus boaria var. angustifolia Turcz.
Maytenus chilensis DC.
Maytenus chilensis var. angustifolia DC.
Maytenus crenulatus C. Presl
Maytenus pendulina Steud.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Southern America
Argentina (Chubut, Cordoba, Mendoza, Neuquen, Rio Negro, Santa Cruz, San Juan, San Luis, Tierra del Fuego), S-Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Chile (Atacama, Coquimbo, Valparaiso, O'Higgins, Maule, Bio Bio, Araucania, Los Lagos, Aisen, Magallanes, Reg. Metropolitana), SE-Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Bolivia (Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz)

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Molina, J.I. 1782. Saggio sulla Storia Naturale del Chili. Stamperia di S. Tomaso d'Aquino: Bologna. 367 pp. Reference page. First availability p.177

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Maytenus boaria. 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. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 03. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Maytenus boaria in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 03. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Maytenus boaria. Published online. Accessed: October 03 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Maytenus boaria. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 03 October 2019.

Vernacular names
English: Mayten
español: Maitén

Maytenus boaria (mayten) is an evergreen tree of the family Celastraceae, native from South America, up to 20 m (66 ft), 80 cm (31 in) diameter, straight trunk. It occurs naturally approximately from 30 to 50ºS: Chile.

Description

Its leaves are small, alternate, elliptical, fine serrate margins, light green color, about 2.5 and 5 cm long. The flowers are small; male flowers are brownish yellow and female are green with purple lines. Its fruit is a yellow bivalve capsule, which contains one or two seeds, and is covered by a red-colored membrane. Its seeds are easy to germinate.
Cultivation and uses

From its seeds oil is obtained in order to elaborate varnish.[1] The hard wood is used in tool handles and as both ornamental in gardens and reforestation of Chile. European bees produce a very delicious honey from its flowers. Its tender leaves are used to feed cattle, In fact, the name boaria means bovine, because cattle enjoy feeding on them. It is easy to plant by seed.

Mayten tree is fully naturalized in New Zealand where it is spreading very rapidly in the Canterbury region, it now classed as an invasive species and illegal to sell or distribute in NZ.

A small number of trees have been planted in gardens of California and private collections in Spain,[2] and all of them have acclimatized in those lands. It has been planted in the North Pacific Coast of the United States as far north as Seattle, Washington,[3] and Vancouver, British Columbia.[4]
Occurrences

It is slow-growing and drought resistant tree. When growing wild in Argentina, a more continental climate, it is hardier than those in Chile; but provenance source has not been selected from Argentina for cultivation in Europe.[5]

In Argentina it's found also in Córdoba Province (an area with a continental climate and a dry season in winter), growing among Polylepis australis, a tree endemic of the central-pampean mountains of Argentina.

Example occurrences include the forested slopes of Cerro la Campana in the La Campana National Park of central Chile. There it is associated with the endangered Chilean wine palm, Jubaea chilensis as well as a number of threatened understory plants including Adiantum gertrudis.[6]
References

C. Donoso (2005) Árboles nativos de Chile. Guía de reconocimiento. Edición 4. Marisa Cuneo Ediciones, Valdivia, Chile. 136p.
Adriana Hoffman (1998) Flora Silvestre de Chile, Zona Central. Edición 4. Fundación Claudio Gay, Santiago. 254 p.
C. Michael Hogan (2008) Chilean Wine Palm: Jubaea chilensis, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
"Maiten" In "Enciclopedia de la Flora Chilena"

Line notes

Witte, Jörg (2004). Maderas del sur de Chile: árboles, aplicaciones y procesos (in Spanish). Editorial Universitaria. p. 38. ISBN 9789561117211.
"Chilean plants cultivated in Spain" (PDF). José Manuel Sánchez de Lorenzo-Cáceres. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2009-06-27.
"Maytenus boaria in Washington Park Arboretum" (PDF). Seattle Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2009-06-27.
"Maytenus boaria - mayten | UBC Botanical Garden". collections.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
Trees and Shrubs Hardy in Great Britain. Vol 1 - 4 and Supplement. Murray 1981.
C. Michael Hogan, 2008