8285.000 Gardenia J. Ellis

Description of the genus

Shrubs or trees, with branches often in threes and young parts often glutinous. Stipules sheathing, often truncate. Leaves opposite or 3-nate, with or without domatia. Flowers large, terminal or pseudoaxillary, solitary or in few-flowered fascicles, white, turning yellow to brown with age. Corolla tube funnel-shaped or cylindric; lobes 5-12. Ovary 1-locular with 2-9 parietal placentas. Fruit spherical or ellipsoid, usually with a thick fibrous or woody wall. Seeds numerous, fused into a pulpy solid mass.

Derivation of name: Named after Alexander Garden, a medical doctor from Aberdeen, who was one of Linnaeus' correspondents

Worldwide: c. 60 species in the tropical and warm Old World

Zambia: 8 taxa.

The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
Menophra obtusata (Pale waved umber)
Omizodes ocellata (Ocellate thorn)
Gardenia resiniflua subsp. resiniflua

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsProvincesContent
brachythamnus (K. Schum.) LaunertB,WNw,WDescription, Image
imperialis K. Schum. subsp. imperialis B,N,W,C,ENw,Lp,N,E,Lk,WDescription, Image
resiniflua Hiern subsp. resiniflua N,C,E,SN,Mc,E,Lk,SDescription, Image
subacaulis Stapf & Hutch.N,C,E,SN,E,C,Lk,S
ternifolia Schumach. & Thonn. subsp. jovis-tonantis (Welw.) Verdc. var. jovis-tonantis (Welw. Aubrev.N,ENw,Cb,N,E,CImage
ternifolia Schumach. & Thonn. subsp. jovis-tonantis (Welw.) Verdc. var. goetzei (Stapf & Hutch.) Verdc.N,W,C,SDescription, Image
volkensii K. Schum. subsp. spatulifolia (Stapf & Hutch.) Verdc.B,N,C,SNw,N,C,SImage
volkensii K. Schum. subsp. volkensii var. volkensii NMcDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Gardenia:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Gardenia
Flora of Burundi: Gardenia
Flora of Caprivi: Gardenia
Flora of the DRC: Gardenia
Flora of Malawi: Gardenia
Flora of Mozambique: Gardenia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Gardenia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Gardenia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Gardenia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Gardenia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Gardenia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Gardenia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Gardenia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Gardenia
JSTOR Plant Science: Gardenia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Gardenia
Plants of the World Online: Gardenia
Tropicos: Gardenia
Wikipedia: Gardenia

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Gardenia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1380, retrieved 8 December 2024

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