Gillenia

Moench

Suppl. Meth., 286. 1802.

Common names: Indian physic
Endemic
Etymology: For Arnold Gillen, seventeenth-century German botanist and physician
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 425. Mentioned on page 19, 424.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA9 P37 Gillenia stipulata.jpegGillenia stipulata
Vauquelinia californica subsp. californica
Eriobotrya japonica
Marjorie C. Leggitt
Marjorie C. Leggitt
Marjorie C. Leggitt

Herbs, perennial, 4–10 dm, glabrous or hairy, hairs simple and glandular; rhizomatous, rhizomes horizontal, woody. Stems 1–5, proximal to inflorescences, erect to ascending, usually red when young, usually simple. Leaves persistent, basal and cauline, ternate; stipules depressed-ovate or linear, margins serrate, doubly serrate, shallowly laciniate, incised, lobed, or dissected; petiole present or absent; blade trullate to widely trullate, 3–9 cm, herbaceous, leaflets 3, lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 4–8 cm, margins flat, incised, doubly serrate, teeth gland-tipped, variably glandular and hairy. Inflorescences terminal, 3 (–9) -flowered, loose, leafy panicles; bracts present; bracteoles absent. Pedicels present, 1–7 on each branch. Flowers 10–20 mm diam.; hypanthium often red or purple, 4.5–8 mm, glabrous; sepals 5, erect, triangular-ovate; petals 5, white to pale rose, linear-lanceolate, unequal; stamens 20 (in 3 whorls), shorter than petals; styles filiform, glabrous, stigmas capitate. Fruits aggregated follicles, 5 (1–5 maturing), broadly ovoid to broadly elliptic-ovoid, slightly flattened, 4.5–8 mm, strigose to villous-strigose, glabrous, or glabrate, partially dehiscent abaxially and partially adaxially; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, erect to loose spreading at apices. Seeds 2 per follicle, light-brown to reddish, longitudinally rugulose, glabrous. x = 9.

Discussion

Species 2 (2 in the flora).

Porteranthus Britton, a superfluous and illegitimate name, was proposed by N. L. Britton in 1894 as a substitute for Gillenia because the similar name Gillena had been used by Adanson in 1763. Both names refer to Arnold Gillen. A proposal to conserve Gillenia (D. R. Hunt 1982) was opposed by K. R. Robertson (1983); a vote (E. G. Voss 1986) indicated that the two names are not confusable.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Stipules depressed-ovate, persistent, 10–20(–25) × 10–20 mm; leaflets: abaxial surfaces densely glandular; follicles glabrous or glabrate. Gillenia stipulata
1 Stipules linear, deciduous, 3–8 × 1–3 mm; leaflets: abaxial surfaces eglandular or sparsely glandular; follicles strigose to villous-strigose. Gillenia trifoliata

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... more about "Gillenia"
Guy L. Nesom +
Moench +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
trullate +  and widely trullate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
adnate +  and connate +
Indian physic +
North America +
not +  and aggregated +
For Arnold Gillen, seventeenth-century German botanist and physician +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
strigose +  and villous-strigose glabrous or glabrate +
flattened +, broadly ovoid +  and broadly elliptic-ovoid +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
not +  and aggregated +
not +  and aggregated +
rhizomatous +  and simple +
purple +  and red +
tubular +  and campanulate +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
crassinucellate +
persistent +
cauline +  and basal +
lanceolate +  and ovate-oblong +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
incised +, dissected +, lobed +, laciniate +  and serrate +
inferior +  and superior +
biseriate +  and clustered +
collateral +  and basal +
2 +  and 4 +
1 +  and 7 +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
white +  and pale rose +
free +  and distinct +
linear-lanceolate +
unequal +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
Suppl. Meth., +
not arillate +
light-brown +  and reddish +
rugulose +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
erect +  and loose spreading +
triangular-ovate +
free +  and distinct +
erect +  and ascending +
1 +  and 5 +
deciduous +  and persistent +
linear;depressed-ovate +
deciduous +
distinct +
basal +, lateral +, subterminal +  and terminal +
filiform +
Gillenia +
Rosaceae tribe Gillenieae +
gland-tipped +
inconspicuous +
hairy +  and glabrous +