Pisonia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Nyctaginaceae
- Genus
- Pisonia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Pisonia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pisonia
Pisonia is a genus of flowering plants in the four o'clock flower family, Nyctaginaceae. It was named for Dutch physician and naturalist Willem Piso (1611–1678). Certain species in this genus are known as catchbirdtrees, birdcatcher trees or birdlime trees because they catch birds. The sticky seeds are postulated to be an adaptation of some island species that ensures the dispersal of seeds between islands by attaching them to birds, and also allows the enriching of coralline sands. (Should a fledgling fall to the ground, become entangled in the Pisonia's sticky seeds, and be unable to free itself, then it will starve, and so enrich the soil within the tree's rootzone.) These island species include P. brunoniana of Australasia and Polynesia and P. umbellifera, which is widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific region.
...Pisonia in languages:
- English
- catchbirdtrees
- English
- Birdcatcher trees
- Japanese
- ウドノキ属
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Pisonia aculeata
- Pisonia albida
- Pisonia ambigua
- Pisonia byrsonimifolia
- Pisonia calafia
- Pisonia capitata
- Pisonia costata
- Pisonia donnellsmithii
- Pisonia ekmanii
- Pisonia fasciculata
- Pisonia flavescens
- Pisonia grandis
- Pisonia horneae
- Pisonia indecora
- Pisonia jamaicensis
- Pisonia macranthocarpa
- Pisonia margaretiae
- Pisonia ochracea
- Pisonia petenensis
- Pisonia petiolaris
- Pisonia proctorii
- Pisonia roqueae
- Pisonia rotundata
- Pisonia sechellarum
- Pisonia silvatica
- Pisonia subcordata
- Pisonia taina
- Pisonia zapallo































































































































































