Eternal petal vine
Release Date：2024-06-25 Source： Number of views：94
Monimopetalum chinense, originally named "Qi Vine", is a deciduous vine in the genus Monimopetalum of the Celastraceae family. In 1926, Chinese botanist Ching Ren-chang first discovered it in the Pan Kengwu of Zongli Village, Qimen County, and it was tentatively named "Qi Vine" at that time. Later, American taxonomist A. Rehder, noticing that there were large and persistent petals outside its fruits which never withered, a rather rare phenomenon in the plant kingdom, thus named the genus as Monimopetalum (meaning eternal petals) and added "chinesis" (meaning from China), so its scientific name is Monimopetalum chinense Rehd. Since it was first discovered in Qimen, Anhui, it was once regarded as an "endemic species to Qimen" or an "endemic species to Anhui". Later, it was found that it also distributed in Jiangxi, so Monimopetalum chinense was expanded to be an "endemic species to Anhui and Jiangxi". It now belongs to the national second-class key protected plants and is also a monotypic genus plant endemic to China, which has important scientific significance for studying the origin and evolution of populations in the Celastraceae family, their interrelationships, as well as clarifying the origin of the flora in East China and its external connections.
Monimopetalum chinense, originally named "Qi Vine", is a deciduous vine in the genus Monimopetalum of the Celastraceae family. In 1926, Chinese botanist Ching Ren-chang first discovered it in the Pan Kengwu of Zongli Village, Qimen County, and it was tentatively named "Qi Vine" at that time. Later, American taxonomist A. Rehder, noticing that there were large and persistent petals outside its fruits which never withered, a rather rare phenomenon in the plant kingdom, thus named the genus as Monimopetalum (meaning eternal petals) and added "chinesis" (meaning from China), so its scientific name is Monimopetalum chinense Rehd. Since it was first discovered in Qimen, Anhui, it was once regarded as an "endemic species to Qimen" or an "endemic species to Anhui". Later, it was found that it also distributed in Jiangxi, so Monimopetalum chinense was expanded to be an "endemic species to Anhui and Jiangxi". It now belongs to the national second-class key protected plants and is also a monotypic genus plant endemic to China, which has important scientific significance for studying the origin and evolution of populations in the Celastraceae family, their interrelationships, as well as clarifying the origin of the flora in East China and its external connections.
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