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Fruit types & dispersal modes in #Oleaceae are diverse. Drupes are the rule in Oleeae + Ligustrum & Syringa, but Fraxinus & Fontanesia have samaras, Schrebera & Forsythia have capsules & winged seeds, Myxopyrum & Jasminum have berry-like fruits. 📷: J. dichotomum

Olea s.l. is not monophyletic. Many spp. are isolated from O. europaea, the type species of Olea. Tretrapilus Lour. (1790) was resurrected by de Juana for Asian spp., but it may be polyphyletic by including T. caudatilimbus. 📷: T. dioicus by Satish Nikam CCBYNC2 #Oleaceae

Cartrema has just 4 species: The two species mentioned in this #TBT post, and 2 congeners in Thailand Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra. What a crazy distribution! 🤯 #Oleaceae x.com/scott_zona/sta…

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Cartrema has just 4 species: The two species mentioned in this #TBT post, and 2 congeners in Thailand Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra. What a crazy distribution! 🤯 #Oleaceae x.com/scott_zona/sta… https://t.co/Rtp0oUkHzt

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Forsythia has 10 species in China, Korea, and Japan, but an 11th species is found in eastern Europe (Albania, Yugoslavia). That’s an amazing disjunction! #Oleaceae #distribution #Forsythia 📷: Forsythia europaea by Nihad Kudo CC BY-NC 4.

The subtribes of tribe Oleeae are (Schreberinae, (Ligustrinae, (Fraxininae, Oleinae))). Schrebera has 16 spp from tropical Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia, and Borneo, but 1 species occurs in Peru! #Oleaceae #distribution 📷: Schrebera alata of Africa. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2

My interest in Oleaceae goes way back to the time I did a morphometric analysis of leaf shape in the Caribbean endemic genus Haenianthus. My tragically overlooked & uncited paper is here: doi.org/10.1139/b91-066 #Oleaceae #Haenianthus #Caribbean

Osmanthus is a polyphyletic genus. One clade comprises Nestegis (5 spp.), Notelaea (12 spp.), & 📷: Osmanthus austrocaledonicus, which should be removed from Osmanthus s.l. If this clade is treated as one genus, Notelaea has priority. #Oleaceae doi.org/10.1186/s12915…

The olive family (#Oleaceae) is worldwide & one of my favorite families. It has exstipulate, opposite leaves, tubular corollas, & (usually) 2 stamens. This is Noronhia emarginata of Madagascar. Check out those chunky flowers and drupaceous fruits! #TropicalBotany #Noronhia

쥐똥나무 사이에 개나리 한 그루 #Oleaceae

The other endemic #Oleaceae from the #Scrub is Chionanthus pygmaeus. It is a small tree (hence the epithet) with white, showy flowers just like the more widespread C. virginicus but with larger fruits. #Florida 📷: L.W. Ridge CCBYNC4

One of two endemic Oleaceae in the Scrub, Cartrema floridana (which I learned in the 20th century as Osmanthus megacarpus; #Oleaceae) has fruits that are larger than Cartrema americana, which is widespread in the SE USA. #Scrub #Florida 📷: L.W. Ridge CCBYNC4

I just learned that Forsythia (#Oleaceae) is heterostylous!😮 I have 2 spp. in my garden: some legacy plants (F. x intermedia?) & F. koreana. The legacy plants (Left) are all long-styled; F. koreana (R) is short-styled. Check your forsythias & report back. #Heterostyly #Forsythia

Jasminum cuspidatum Rottler, #Oleaceae from the #Eastern Ghats of #AndhraPadesh.

Jasminum azoricum (lemon-scented jasmine). Native to Madeira, where it is critically endangered. #Jasminum #Oleaceae

🚨 New Issue Alert! 🌴 Check out this months issue, featuring articles on #biogeographic patterns in coastal forests in #Chile, winged #papilionate floral conservatism in #legumes, systematics of #Oleaceae and much more! 👇 academic.oup.com/botlinnean/iss… @LinneanSociety @OxfordJournals

Chionanthus monteazulensis (#Oleaceae), a #Newspecies from the campo rupestre of Espinhaço Range, #Brazil phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/vie… #Taxonomy

Jasminum elongatum es un arbusto o una trepadora hermosa con flores fragantes cuya distribución original se extiende desde Nepal al sur de China y el norte de Australia. #oleaceae #jasminum #guatemala #flores #plantas #arbustos #trepadoras #botanica #naturaleza #JasminBhasin

Common Malayan jasmine (Jasminum elongatum) is a beautiful shrub or climber with fragrant flowers whose native range extends from Nepal to southern China and northern Australia. #flowers #plants #shrubs #climbers #botany #nature #jasmine #oleaceae #jasminum #guatemala