Olea
| Olea | |
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| Olea europaea (Olive), Lisbon, Portugal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Oleaceae |
| Tribe: | Oleeae |
| Subtribe: | Oleinae |
| Genus: | Olea L.[1] |
| Synonyms[1][2] | |
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Enaimon Raf. | |
Olea (/ˈoʊliə/ OH-lee-ə[3]) is a genus of about 40 species in the family Oleaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Middle East, southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and Australasia.[2] They are evergreen trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire leaves. The fruit is a drupe. Leaves of Olea contain trichosclereids.[4]
For humans, the most important and familiar species is by far the olive (Olea europaea), native to the Mediterranean region, Africa, southwest Asia, and the Himalayas,[5][6] which is the type species of the genus. The native olive (O. paniculata) is a larger tree, attaining a height of 15–18 m in the forests of Queensland, and yielding a hard and tough timber. The yet harder wood of the black ironwood O. capensis, an inhabitant of Natal, is important in South Africa.[citation needed]
Olea species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including double-striped pug. [citation needed]
Species
- Olea ambrensis H.Perrier - Madagascar
- Olea borneensis Boerl. - Borneo, Philippines
- Olea brachiata (Lour.) Merr. - Guangdong, Hainan, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Anambas Islands
- Olea capensis L. – Small Ironwood - Comoros, Madagascar; Africa from South Africa north to Ethiopia, Sudan, Zaire, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, etc
- Olea capitellata Ridl. - Pahang
- Olea caudatilimba L.C.Chia - Yunnan
- Olea chimanimani Kupicha - Chimanimani Mountains of Mozambique and Zimbabwe
- Olea cordatula H.L.Li - Vietnam
- Olea dioica Roxb. - India, Bangladesh, Myanmar
- Olea europaea L. – Olive - Mediterranean, Africa, southwestern Asia, Himalayas; naturalized many other places
- Olea exasperata Jacq. - South Africa
- Olea gagnepainii Knobl. - Thailand, Laos
- Olea gamblei C.B.Clarke - Sikkim
- Olea hainanensis H.L.Li - Vietnam, Laos, Guangdong, Hainan
- Olea javanica (Blume) Knobl. - Philippines, western Indonesia
- Olea lancea Lam. - Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues Island
- Olea laxiflora H.L.Li - Yunnan
- Olea moluccensis Kiew - Maluku
- Olea neriifolia H.L.Li - Hainan
- Olea palawanensis Kiew - Palawan
- Olea paniculata R.Br. - Yunnan, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Kashmir, Malaysia, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu
- Olea parvilimba (Merr. & Chun) B.M.Miao - Hainan, Vietnam
- Olea polygama Wight - India, Sri Lanka
- Olea puberula Ridl. - Peninsular Malaysia
- Olea rosea Craib - Yunnan, Thailand
- Olea rubrovenia (Elmer) Kiew - Borneo, Philippines
- Olea salicifolia Wall. ex G.Don - Assam, southern China, Indochina
- Olea schliebenii Knobl. - Tanzania
- Olea tetragonoclada L.C.Chia - Guangxi
- Olea tsoongii (Merr.) P.S.Green - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan
- Olea welwitschii (Knobl.) Gilg & G.Schellenb. - central and eastern Africa from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe
- Olea wightiana Wall. ex G.Don - India
- Olea woodiana Knobl. - South Africa, Swaziland, Kenya, Tanzania
- Olea yuennanensis Hand.-Mazz. - China
Formerly placed here
- Chionanthus foveolatus (E.Mey.) Stearn (as O. foveolata E.Mey.)
- Ligustrum compactum var. compactum (as O. compacta Wall. ex G.Don)
- Nestegis cunninghamii (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson (as O. cunninghamii Hook.f.)
- Noronhia emarginata (Lam.) Thouars (as O. emarginata Lam.)
- Osmanthus americanus (L.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex A.Gray (as O. americana L.)
- Osmanthus heterophyllus (G. Don) P.S.Green (as O. aquifolium Siebold & Zucc. or O. ilicifolia Siebold ex Hassk.)
- List source :[7]
References
- ^ a b GRIN (April 4, 2006). "Olea information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, genus Olea
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book. 1995. pp. 606–607.
- ^ Flora of China v 15 p 295, 木犀榄属 mu xi lan shu, Olea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 7. 1753.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Olea europaea L.
- ^ Altevista Flora Italiana, Oleastro, Olea europaea L.
- ^ a b GRIN. "Species in GRIN for genus Olea". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ^ "Name - Olea L. subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved May 20, 2011.