Perkinsiodendron P.W. Fritsch

Sponsor

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Credits

John Grimshaw, Ross Bayton & Tom Christian (2018)

Recommended citation
Grimshaw, J, Bayton, R. & Christian, T. (2018), 'Perkinsiodendron' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/perkinsiodendron/). Accessed 2023-10-03.

Family

Styracaceae

Species in genus

Perkinsiodendron macgregorii

Glossary

authority: The author(s) of a plant name. The names of these authors are stated directly after the plant name often abbreviated. For example Quercus L. (L. = Carl Linnaeus); Rhus wallichii Hook. f. (Hook. f. = Joseph Hooker filius i.e. son of William Hooker). Standard reference for the abbreviations: Brummitt & Powell (1992).

References

Fritsch, P.W. et al. (2016). PERKINSIODENDRON, A NEW GENUS IN THE STYRACACEAE BASED ON MORPHOLOGY AND DNA SEQUENCES

Credits

John Grimshaw, Ross Bayton & Tom Christian (2018)

Recommended citation
Grimshaw, J, Bayton, R. & Christian, T. (2018), 'Perkinsiodendron' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/perkinsiodendron/). Accessed 2023-10-03.

Perkinsiodendron macgregorii fruiting at Kew, august 2020. Image Richard Moore.

Perkinsiodendron has recently been erected to accommodate a single Chinese species, P. macgregorii (formerly Halesia macgregorii). The new genus is named for Janet Russell Perkins (1853–1933) “the foremost early 20th Century authority on the Styracaceae” (Fritsch et al. 2016).

Don Teese's Perkinsiodendron macgregorii flowering prolifically at his garden in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria, Australia. Teese has observed that the flowers appear before the leaves, which arguably makes this a more striking tree than the related silverbells (Halesia). Image Don Teese.

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