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Monotypic genus of flowering plants
Visnea is a
monotypic genus of
flowering plants in family
Pentaphylacaceae .
[4] The genus contains a single species, Visnea mocanera a tree native to the
Canary Islands and
Madeira .
[2]
The fruits of the tree (known as Mocan ) are edible.
[5]
[6]
The genus name of Visnea is in honour of Gérard de Visme (c. 1725 – c. 1797), a French and English merchant in
Lisbon , Portugal.
[7] The genus was first described by
Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782, and published in Suppl. Pl. on page 36.
[2]
Note; Visnea Steud. ex Endl. is a
synonym of
Barbacenia , a genus in a different family.
[8]
Fossil record
Four
fossil seeds of a Visnea sp. have been described from
middle Miocene
strata of the Fasterholt area near
Silkeborg in Central
Jutland ,
Denmark .
[9]
References
^ da Silva Menezes de Sequeira, M.P.; Fernandes, F.; Beech, E. (2017).
"Visnea mocanera " .
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017 : e.T30338A102000773.
doi :
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T30338A102000773.en . Retrieved 15 November 2021 .
^
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b
c
"Visnea L.f. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science" . Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 8 January 2022 .
^
Visnea mocanera L.f.
Plants of the World Online . Retrieved 6 December 2023.
^ Stevens, P.F.,
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website , retrieved 2014-09-18
^ Hernández-Pérez, Margarita; Frı́as, Juana; Rabana, Rosa; Vidal-Valverde, Concepción (September 1994). "Proximate Composition of "Mocan" (Visnea mocanera L.f.): A Fruit Consumed by Canary Natives Author links open overlay panell". Journal of Food Composition and Analysis . 7 (3): 203–207.
doi :
10.1006/jfca.1994.1020 .
^ Marcelino J. del Arco Aguilar and Octavio Rodríguez Delgado
Vegetation of the Canary Islands (2018 ) , p. 321, at
Google Books
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018).
Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition ] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin.
doi :
10.3372/epolist2018 .
ISBN
978-3-946292-26-5 .
S2CID
187926901 . Retrieved 1 January 2021 .
^
"Barbacenia " ,
World Checklist of Selected Plant Families ,
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , retrieved 2018-02-10
^ Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by
Else Marie Friis , The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985