Cunonia

Cunonia
	Cunonia capensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Oxalidales
Family:	Cunoniaceae
Genus:	Cunonia; L.
Species
	Cunonia × alticola; Cunonia aoupiniensis; Cunonia atrorubens; Cunonia austrocaledonica; Cunonia balansae; Cunonia bopopensis; Cunonia bullata; Cunonia capensis; Cunonia cerifera; Cunonia deplanchei; Cunonia dickisonii; Cunonia × koghicola; Cunonia lenormandii; Cunonia linearisepala; Cunonia macrophylla; Cunonia montana; Cunonia pseudoverticillata; Cunonia pterophylla; Cunonia pulchella; Cunonia purpurea; Cunonia rotundifolia; Cunonia rupicola ; Cunonia schinziana ; Cunonia varijuga ; Cunonia vieillardii

Cunonia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Cunoniaceae. The genus has a disjunct distribution, with 24 species endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific, and one species (Cunonia capensis) in Southern Africa. Leaves are opposite, simple or pinnate with a margin entire to serrate. Interpetiolar stipules are often conspicuous and generally enclose buds to form a spoon-like shape (hence the common name "butterspoon tree" for Cunonia capensis). Flowers are bisexual, white, red (pink to purple), or green, arranged in racemes. The fruit is a capsule opening first around the base then vertically, seeds are winged.^[1]^[2]

List of species

Southern Africa

Cunonia capensis L.^[3]

New Caledonia^[2]

Cunonia × alticola Guillaumin
Cunonia aoupiniensis Hoogland
Cunonia atrorubens Schltr.
Cunonia austrocaledonica Brongn. ex Guillaumin
Cunonia balansae Brongn. & Gris
Cunonia bopopensis Pillon & H.C. Hopkins
Cunonia bullata Brongn. & Gris
Cunonia cerifera Hoogland
Cunonia deplanchei Brongn. & Gris
Cunonia dickisonii Pillon & H.C. Hopkins
Cunonia × koghicola H.C. Hopkins, J. Bradford & Pillon
Cunonia lenormandii Vieill. ex Brongn. & Gris
Cunonia linearisepala (Guillaumin) Bernardi
Cunonia macrophylla Brongn. & Gris
Cunonia montana (Brongn. & Gris) Schltr.
Cunonia pseudoverticillata Guillaumin
Cunonia pterophylla (Brongn. & Gris) Schltr.
Cunonia pulchella Brongn. & Gris
Cunonia purpurea Brongn. & Gris
Cunonia rotundifolia Däniker
Cunonia rupicola Hoogland
Cunonia schinziana Däniker
Cunonia varijuga Hoogland
Cunonia vieillardii Brongn. & Gris

References

^ Bradford, J.C., Hopkins, H.CF., Barnes, R.W . (2004). Cunoniaceae. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Volume VI, Flowering plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales. Springer, Heidelberg. p 91-111.
^ ^a ^b Hopkins, H.C., Pillon, Y., Hoogland, R.D. (2014). Cunoniaceae : Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, volume 26. Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris ; IRD, Marseille, 455 p. (collection Faune et Flore tropicales ; 45) ISBN 978-2-85653-764-0.
^ Goldblatt, P., & Manning, J. (2000). Cape plants: a conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa. National Botanical Institute. p. 420

[Bradford_2004-1] Bradford, J.C., Hopkins, H.CF., Barnes, R.W . (2004). Cunoniaceae. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Volume VI, Flowering plants, Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales. Springer, Heidelberg. p 91-111.

[Hopkins_2014-2] Hopkins, H.C., Pillon, Y., Hoogland, R.D. (2014). Cunoniaceae : Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, volume 26. Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris ; IRD, Marseille, 455 p. (collection Faune et Flore tropicales ; 45) ISBN 978-2-85653-764-0.

[Goldblatt_2000-3] Goldblatt, P., & Manning, J. (2000). Cape plants: a conspectus of the Cape flora of South Africa. National Botanical Institute. p. 420

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