Plocama pendula

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Family: Rubiaceae

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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.

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Source: GJ Anderson research plants

Provenance:

GJA 5436, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Male and female plants from wild collected seeds sown 2012. 

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Classification:

• Division: Magnoliophyta
• Class: Magnoliopsida
• SubClass: euasterid I
• Order: Gentianales
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• Family: Rubiaceae
• SubFamily: Rubioideae
• Tribe: Putorieae
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References:

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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