Accession Data
Plocama pendula
Family: Rubiaceae
Country of Origin: Canary Islands (Spain)
Description: Canary Island endemic shrub, occurring in dry winter-rainfall Mediterranean vegetation. Weakly dioecious or gynodioecious, with individual plants that are either mostly functionally male (but can set seeds occasionally), or functionally female.
Accession Data
Accession #: 202300018
Accession Date: 2023-01-26 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 6103
Quantity: 2
Source: GJ Anderson research plants
Provenance:
GJA 5436, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Male and female plants from wild collected seeds sown 2012.
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: euasterid I
Order: Gentianales
Family: Rubiaceae
SubFamily: Rubioideae
Tribe: Putorieae
References
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Anderson, Gregory J., Julia Perez de Paz, Mona Anderson, Gabriel Bernardello and David Taylor. 2021. A ‘leaky’ dimorphic sexual system and breeding system characterize a successful island colonist: The reproductive biology of Plocama pendula (Rubiaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1-16.
doi: 10.1093/botlinnean/boab026
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