Schaefferia

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: Schaefferia
Species: S. angustifolia – S. argentinensis – S. cuneifolia – S. dietheri – S. ephedroides – S. frutescens – S. lottiae – S. marchii – S. oaxacana - S. obovata – S. ovatifolia – S. pilosa – S. serrata – S. shrevei – S. stenophylla
Source(s) of checklist:

Hassler, M. 2019. Schaefferia (Celastraceae). 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 04. Reference page.

Name

Schaefferia Jacq., Enum. Syst. Pl. 10, 33. 1760.

Type species: Schaefferia frutescens Jacq.

References
Primary references

Jacquin, N.J. 1760. Enumeratio systematica plantarum, quas in Insulis Caribaeis vicinaque Americes continente detexit novas, aut iam cognitas emendavit. 41 pp. Apud Theodorum Haak, Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]. BHL Reference page. : 10, 33.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Schaefferia (Celastraceae). 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 04. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Schaefferia (Celastraceae) in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 October 04. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Schaefferia (Celastraceae). Published online. Accessed: October 04 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Schaefferia (Celastraceae). Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 04 October 2019.

Vernacular names

Schaefferia is a genus of flowering shrubs and small trees in the family Celastraceae. The generic name honours German mycologist and clergyman Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718–1790).[2] Members of the genus are found in the Neotropics. The plants are dioecious, with flowers that are unisexual by abortion. The flowers are usually clustered in the leaf axil, although they are solitary in some species. The calyx of the flowers has four lobes, and the corolla consists of four petals. The ovary consists of two locules; each locule has a single ovule which develops into a single seed. The fruit is a drupe.[3]
Species

Acevedo-Rodríguez reports 16 species in the genus.[3] Missouri Botanical Garden's TROPICOS database lists the following species:[4]

Schaefferia albiflora Sessé & Moc.
Schaefferia angustifolia Urb. & Ekman
Schaefferia argentinensis Speg.
Schaefferia cuneifolia A.Gray – Desert yaupon[5]
Schaefferia elliptica Lundell
Schaefferia ephedroides Urb.
Schaefferia frutescens Jacq. – Florida boxwood[5]
Schaefferia lanceifolia Lundell

Schaefferia lottiae Lundell
Schaefferia oaxacana Standl.
Schaefferia ovatifolia Lundell
Schaefferia pilosa Standl.
Schaefferia serrata Loes.
Schaefferia shrevei Lundell
Schaefferia stenophylla Standl.
Schaefferia viridescens DC.

Formerly placed here

Drypetes lateriflora (Sw.) Krug & Urb. (as S. lateriflora Sw.)[6]

References
Wikispecies has information related to Schaefferia.

"Genus: Schaefferia Jacq". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2005-02-08. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
Austin, Daniel F. (2004). Florida Ethnobotany. CRC Press. p. 1030. ISBN 978-0-8493-2332-4.
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro (1996). Flora of St. John U.S. Virgin Islands. Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, Volume 78. ISBN 0-89327-402-X.
"Schaefferia Jacq". TROPICOS. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 2009-09-24.
"Schaefferia". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
"GRIN Species Records of Schaefferia". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-09-07.