Elaeocarpus

Quality 0.50 · 1 view · Updated 2 months ago

Genus of flowering plants

title: "Elaeocarpus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["elaeocarpus", "elaeocarpaceae-genera", "botanical-taxa-named-by-carl-linnaeus"] description: "Genus of flowering plants" topic_path: "general/elaeocarpus" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaeocarpus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of flowering plants ::

|image = Elaeocarpus hainanensis 06.JPG |image_caption = Elaeocarpus hainanensis flowers |taxon = Elaeocarpus |authority = L. |type_species = Elaeocarpus serratus |type_species_authority = L.f. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See List of Elaeocarpus species |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = {{collapsible list |title=15 synonyms

Elaeocarpus is a genus of nearly five hundred species of flowering plants in the family Elaeocarpaceae native to the western Indian Ocean, tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Plants in the genus are trees or shrubs with simple leaves, flowers with four or five petals, and usually blue fruit. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Elaeocarpus_sylvestris6.jpg" caption="''[[Elaeocarpus sylvestris]]'' fruits"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Elaeocarpus_dentatus_11.JPG" caption="''[[Elaeocarpus dentatus]]'' foliage"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Elaeocarpus_grandiflorus_flowers_at_Munnar_(1).jpg" caption="''[[Elaeocarpus grandiflorus]]'' flowers, at [[Munnar"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Elaeocarpus_tuberculatus_flowers_04.jpg" caption="''[[Elaeocarpus tuberculatus]]''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/繁花薯豆_Elaeocarpus_multiflorus_20220911103816_01.jpg" caption="Pulvina at both ends of the petiole. ''[[Elaeocarpus multiflorus]]''"] ::

Description

Plants in the genus Elaeocarpus are mostly evergreen trees or shrubs, a few are epiphytes or lianes, and some are briefly deciduous. The leaves are arranged alternately, simple (strictly compound with only one leaflet) with a swelling where the petiole meets the leaf, often have toothed edges, usually have prominent veins and often turn red before falling. The flowers are usually arranged in a raceme, usually bisexual, have four or five sepals and petals and many stamens. The petals usually have finely-divided, linear lobes. The fruit is an oval to spherical drupe that is usually blue, sometimes black, with a sculptured endocarp.

Taxonomy and naming

The genus Elaeocarpus was first formally described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum, although Johannes Burman published an illustration of "Elaecarpus serrata" in his book Thesaurus zeylanicus, but without a description of the genus. The first species described by Linnaeus (the type species) was Elaeocarpus serratus. The name Elaeocarpus is derived from Greek and means ‘olive-fruited’.

Species

See also List of Elaeocarpus species

There are about 480 species of Elaeocarpus, found on the islands of the western Indian Ocean, in tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia and on Pacific islands.

Selected species

References

References

  1. "''Elaeocarpus'' L.". International Plant Names Index.
  2. "''Elaeocarpus''". Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria.
  3. "Genus ''Elaeocarpus''". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.
  4. Phoon, Sook-Ngoh. (2015). "Systematics and biogeography of ''Elaeocarpus'' (Elaeocarpaceae)". James Cook University.
  5. "''Elaeocarpus''". Australian Plant Census.
  6. (1753). "Species Plantarum".
  7. (1747). "Thesaurus zeylandica".
  8. (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press.
  9. "''Elaeocarpus''". Plants of the World Online.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

elaeocarpuselaeocarpaceae-generabotanical-taxa-named-by-carl-linnaeus