Lactoris

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Lactoris fernandeziana

Scientific classification

Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Magnoliids

Order: Piperales

Family: Lactoridaceae

Genus: Lactoris
Phil.

Species: L. fernandeziana
 Binomial name

Lactoris fernandeziana
Phil.

Lactoris fernandeziana is a flowering shrub endemic to the cloud

forest of Masatierra — Robinson Crusoe Island, of the Juan Fernández
Islands archipelago of Chile.

Contents
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 1Taxonomy
 2Description
 3See also
 4References

Taxonomy[edit]
It was formerly placed in Aristolochiaceae, but as of the APG III (2009) is
now placed alone in the family Lactoridaceae, in the order Piperales.
Morphological data are not clear concerning the classification
of Lactoris,[1] but molecular data place it in the Aristolochiaceae.[2]

Description[edit]
Lactoris fernandeziana seems to be wind-pollinated. The wild population of
about 1000 plants has low genetic diversity, and grows on foggy and rainy
slopes, usually as an understory plant but sometimes in full sun.
Cultivation of seedlings has generally been unsuccessful, although cuttings
have worked better and better knowledge of preferred growing conditions
may make cultivation easier.[3]
In the fossil record, pollen has been found which seems to be related to the
living Lactoris species.[3]

See also[edit]

 Fernandezian Region
 Juan Fernández Islands Flora
Lactoris fernandeziana — 1888 botanical illustration.

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ Favio González; Paula Rudall (2001). "The questionable

affinities of Lactoris: evidence from branching pattern, inflorescence
morphology, and stipule development". American Journal of
Botany. 88 (12): 2143–
2150. doi:10.2307/3558375. JSTOR 3558375. PMID 21669646.
2. Jump up^ Daniel L. Nickrent, Albert Blarer, Yin-Long Qiu, Douglas
E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis and Michael Zanis (2002). "Molecular
data place Hydnoraceae with Aristolochiaceae". American Journal of
Botany. 89 (11): 1809–
1817. doi:10.3732/ajb.89.11.1809. PMID 21665609.
3. ^ Jump up to:a b Gabriel Bernardello; Gregory J. Anderson; Patricio
Lopez S.; Maryke A. Cleland; Tod F. Stuessy; Daniel J. Crawford
(1999). "Reproductive biology of Lactoris fernandeziana
(Lactoridaceae)". American Journal of Botany. 86 (6): 829–
840. doi:10.2307/2656704. JSTOR 2656704. PMID 10371725.
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