Franklinia

Franklinia est monotypicum familiae Theacearum genus, cuius sola species est Franklinia alatamaha, arbor florens (usitate in America Septentrionali appellata Franklin tree), quae in valli Altamahae Fluminis in Georgia in Civitatibus Foederatis meridio-orientalibus endemica est. Planta ex Beniamino Franklinio appellatur.

Plantae — Angiospermae

Eudicotyledones
Asteridae
Ordo : Ericales
Familia : Theaceae
Genus : Franklinia
W.Bartram ex Marshall, 1785
Species : F. alatamaha

Franklinia alatamaha
W.Bartram ex Marshall

Conservationis status

EW

Planta fuit exstincta in locis feris post saeculum undevicensimum iniens, sed superest ut arbor ornamentalis exculta. Descendunt omnes Frankliniae arbores exstantes ex seminibus a Gulielmo Bartram collectis et in Horto Bartram Philadelphiae propagatis.^[2]

Pinacotheca

↑ World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998 (2006). Frankliniana alatamaha. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006.
↑ Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa., USA), "The Franklinia Story," https://web.archive.org/web/20070821050936/http://www.bartramsgarden.org/franklinia/index.html. (Nexus die 1 Iulii 2007 confirmatus.)

Bartram, William. 1791. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida. Philadelphiae: James & Johnson.
Bozeman, John R., et George A. Rogers. 1986. "This very curious tree": Despite years of searching and research the enigma of Franklinia alatamaha endures. Tipularia (November): 9-15.
Dirr, Michael A. 1998. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses. Champaign, Illinoisiae: Stipes Publishing L.L.C.
Fry, Joel T. 2000. Franklinia alatamaha: A History of that ‘Very Curious’ Shrub, Part 1: Discovery and Naming of the Franklinia. Bartram Broadside (Spring): 1–24.
Marshall, Humphry. 1785. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, or an Alphabetical Catalogue of Forest Trees and Shrubs, Natives of the American United States, Arranged According to the Linnaean System. Philadelphiae: Joseph Cruikshank.
Orton, Elwin R., Jr. 1977. Successful Hybridization of Gordonia lasianthus (L.) Ellis x Franklinia alatamaha Marshall. American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta 11(4):81-84.
Ranney, Thomas G., Thomas A. Eaker, Paul R. Frantz, et Clifford R. Parks. 2003. "xSchimlinia floridbunda (Theaceae): A New Intergeneric Hybrid between Franklinia alatamaha and Schima argentea." HortScience 38(6): 1198–1200.
Tsou, Chih-Hua. 1998. "Early Floral Development of Camellioideae (Theaceae)," American Journal of Botany 85(11):1531-1547.

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Frankliniam alatamaham spectant.

Vide "Franklinia alatamaha" apud Vicispecies.

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