Visnea
Visnea mocanera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Ericales
Family: Pentaphylacaceae
Genus: Visnea
L.f.

Visnea L.f. is a monotypic genus of plant in family Pentaphylacaceae.[1] The genus only contains the following species (but this information may be incomplete); Visnea mocanera L.f. which is native to the Canary Islands and Madeira.[2]

The genus name of Visnea is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in Lisbon, Portugal.[3] The Latin specific epithet of mocanera refers to another genus of plants from India and Malesia, (which is now a synonym of Dipterocarpus C.F.Gaertn. The genus was first described and published in Suppl. Pl. on page 36 in 1782.[2]

The fruits of the tree (known as Mocan) are edible.[4][5]

Note; Visnea Steud. ex Endl. is a synonym of Barbacenia, a genus in a different family.[6]

Fossil record

Four fossil seeds of a Visnea sp. have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Stevens, P.F., Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, retrieved 2014-09-18
  2. 1 2 "Visnea L.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Hernández-Pérez, Margarita; Frı́as, Juana; Rabana, Rosa; Vidal-Valverde, Concepción (September 1994). "Proximate Composition of "Mocan" (Visnea mocanera L.f.): A Fruit Consumed by Canary Natives Author links open overlay panell". Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 7 (3): 203–207. doi:10.1006/jfca.1994.1020.
  5. ↑ Marcelino J. del Arco Aguilar and Octavio Rodríguez Delgado Vegetation of the Canary Islands (2018 ), p. 321, at Google Books
  6. ↑ "Barbacenia", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-02-10
  7. ↑ Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985
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