Picconia

Genus of flowering plants

For other uses, see Picconia (fly).

Picconia

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Plantae
Clade:  | Tracheophytes
Clade:  | Angiosperms
Clade:  | Eudicots
Clade:  | Asterids
Order:  | Lamiales
Family:  | Oleaceae
Tribe:  | Oleeae
Subtribe:  | Oleinae
Genus:  | Picconia
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Species

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Picconia is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, found in the laurel forests habitat of Macaronesia.[1]

## Description

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They are evergreen shrubs to trees with large, opposite, entire, shiny, ovoid leaves and numerous flowers. The fruit is a drupe. The flowers are small, white and fragrant, followed by one-seeded, olive-like green fruits, ripening to bluish-black.[2] Picconia are native of open spots in the laurel forest of the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands where they are found only in the humid to hyper-humid evergreen forests of the cloud belt.[3] Tree species with laurel-like leaves are predominant, forming a dense canopy up to 40 m high that blocks out most light, resulting in scant vegetation in the understory.[3] Most of these tree species in Africa are ancient paleoendemic[4] species of the genera Laurus, Ocotea, Persea, and Picconia, which in ancient times were widely distributed on the African and European continents.[3][4]

## Species

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* Picconia azorica \- endemic to the archipelago of the Azores[5]
* Picconia excelsa \- tree up to 15m; Madeira, Canaries

## References

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1. ^ "Vegetative Propagation Of The Endangered Azorean Tree Picconia Azorica". biblioteca.universia.net. Archived from the original on 2014-04-27. Retrieved 2012-05-19.
2. ^ "Picconia 
 Rareplants.eu Shop". www.rareplants.de.
3. ^ a b c http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/natura2000/management/habitats/pdf/9360_Macaronesian_laurel_forests.pdf [bare URL PDF]
4. ^ a b Warren, Ben H.; Hawkins, Julie A. (7 September 2006). "The distribution of species diversity across a flora's component lineages: dating the Cape's 'relicts'". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 273 (1598): 2149–2158. doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3560. PMC 1635518. PMID 16901834.
5. ^ Secretaria Regional do Ambiente e do Mar (2008), Plantas Endémicas dos Açores: Guia da Ilha do Faial, p.13

## External links

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Media related to Picconia at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Picconia|

* Wikidata: Q7190600
* Wikispecies: Picconia (Oleaceae)
* APDB: 193717
* CoL: 8VTSY
* EPPO: 1QCCG
* GBIF: 3233686
* GRIN: 9365
* iNaturalist: 185403
* IPNI: 28409-1
* IRMNG: 1359996
* NBN: NHMSYS0020704608
* NCBI: 126560
* Open Tree of Life: 89217
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:28409-1
* Tropicos: 40008446
* WFO: wfo-4000029599

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