Olea
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Olea (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell[1]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae. It includes 12 species native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Middle East, 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.[3]
For humans, the most important and familiar species is by far the olive (Olea europaea), native to the Mediterranean region, Africa, southwest Asia, and the Himalayas,[4][5] which is the type species of the genus. The native olive (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. capensis, an inhabitant of Natal, is important in South Africa.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Olea species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including double-striped pug. Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Species
12 species are currently accepted:[2]
- Olea capensis L. – Small Ironwood – Comoros, Madagascar; Africa from South Africa north to Ethiopia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, etc.
- Olea capitellata Ridl. – Pahang
- Olea chimanimani Kupicha – Chimanimani Mountains of Mozambique and Zimbabwe
- Olea europaea L. – Olive – Mediterranean, Africa, southwestern Asia, Himalayas; naturalized many other places
- Olea exasperata Jacq. – South Africa
- Olea lancea Lam. – Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues Island
- Olea luzonica Kiew – Philippines (Luzon)
- Olea paniculata R.Br. – Yunnan, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Kashmir, Malaysia, Nepal, New Guinea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu
- Olea puberula Ridl. – Peninsular Malaysia
- Olea schliebenii Knobl. – Tanzania
- Olea welwitschii (Knobl.) Gilg & G.Schellenb. – central and eastern Africa from Ethiopia to Zimbabwe
- Olea woodiana Knobl. – South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Tanzania
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.)
- Tetrapilus borneensis (Boerl.) de JuanaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (as Olea borneensis Boerl.)
- Tetrapilus brachiatus Lour.Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (as Olea brachiata (Lour.) Merr.)
- Tetrapilus rubrovenius (Elmer) L.A.S.JohnsonScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (as Olea rubrovenia (Elmer) Kiew)
- Tetrapilus tsoongii (Merr.) de JuanaScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". (as Olea tsoongii (Merr.) P.S.Green and Olea yuennanensis Hand.-Mazz.)
- List source :[6]
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedpowo - ↑ 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.
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