Olea
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| Genus: | Olea |
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Olea /ˈoʊliːə/[3] is a genus of about 40 species in the family Oleaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia and Australasia.[2] They are evergreen trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire leaves. The fruit is a drupe. Leaves of Olea contain trichosclereids.[4]
For humans, the most important species is by far the Olive (Olea europaea), native to the Mediterranean region, Africa, southwest Asia and the Himalayas.[5][6] O. paniculata is a larger tree, attaining a height of 15–18 m in the forests of Queensland, and yielding a hard and tough timber. The yet harder wood of the Black Ironwood O. laurifolia, an inhabitant of Natal, is important in South Africa.
Olea species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Double-striped Pug.
Species
- Olea ambrensis H.Perrier - Madagascar
- Olea borneensis Boerl. - Borneo, Philippines
- Olea brachiata (Lour.) Merr. - Guangdong, Hainan, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Anambas Islands
- Olea capensis L. – Small Ironwood - Comoros, Madagascar; Africa from South Africa north to Ethiopia, Sudan, Zaire, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, etc
- Olea capitellata Ridl. - Pahang
- Olea caudatilimba L.C.Chia - Yunnan
- Olea chimanimani Kupicha - Chimanimani Mountains of Mozambique and Zimbabwe
- Olea cordatula H.L.Li - Vietnam
- Olea dioica Roxb. - India, Bangladesh, Myanmar
- Olea europaea L. – Olive - Mediterranean, Africa, southwestern Asia, Himalayas; naturalized many other places
- Olea exasperata Jacq. - South Africa
- Olea gagnepainii Knobl. - Thailand, Laos
- Olea gamblei C.B.Clarke - Sikkim
- Olea hainanensis H.L.Li - Vietnam, Laos, Guangdong, Hainan
- Olea javanica (Blume) Knobl. - Philippines, western Indonesia
- Olea lancea Lam. - Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues Island
- Olea laxiflora H.L.Li - Yunnan
- Olea moluccensis Kiew - Maluku
- Olea neriifolia H.L.Li - Hainan
- Olea palawanensis Kiew - Palawan
- Olea paniculata R.Br. - Yunnan, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Kashmir, Malaysia, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu
- Olea parvilimba (Merr. & Chun) B.M.Miao - Hainan, Vietnam
- Olea polygama Wight - India, Sri Lanka
- Olea puberula Ridl. - Peninsular Malaysia
- Olea rosea Craib - Yunnan, Thailand
- Olea rubrovenia (Elmer) Kiew - Borneo, Philippines
- Olea salicifolia Wall. ex G.Don - Assam, southern China, Indochina
- Olea schliebenii Knobl. - Tanzania
- Olea tetragonoclada L.C.Chia - Guangxi
- Olea tsoongii (Merr.) P.S.Green - Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Yunnan
- Olea welwitschii (Knobl.) Gilg & G.Schellenb. - central and eastern Africa from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe
- Olea wightiana Wall. ex G.Don - India
- Olea woodiana Knobl. - South Africa, Swaziland, Kenya, Tanzania
- Olea yuennanensis Hand.-Mazz. - China
- Olea hoschstetteri - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Formerly placed here
- Chionanthus foveolatus (E.Mey.) Stearn (as O. foveolata E.Mey.)
- Ligustrum compactum var. compactum (as O. compacta Wall. ex G.Don)
- Nestegis cunninghamii (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson (as O. cunninghamii Hook.f.)
- Noronhia emarginata (Lam.) Thouars (as O. emarginata Lam.)
- Osmanthus americanus (L.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex A.Gray (as O. americana L.)
- Osmanthus heterophyllus (G. Don) P.S.Green (as O. aquifolium Siebold & Zucc. or O. ilicifolia Siebold ex Hassk.)
- List source :[7]
References
- ^ a b GRIN (April 4, 2006). "Olea information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, genus Olea
- ^ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607
- ^ Flora of China v 15 p 295, 木犀榄属 mu xi lan shu, Olea Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 7. 1753.
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Olea europaea L.
- ^ Altevista Flora Italiana, Oleastro, Olea europaea L.
- ^ a b GRIN. "Species in GRIN for genus Olea". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved May 20, 2011.
- ^ "Name - Olea L. subordinate taxa". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved May 20, 2011.