''Rhodoleia'' is a genus of
plant
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
s in the family
Hamamelidaceae
Hamamelidaceae, commonly referred to as the witch-hazel family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Saxifragales. The clade consists of shrubs and small trees positioned within the woody clade of the core Saxifragales. An earlier syste ...
. Together with its sister genus ''
Exbucklandia'', ''Rhodoleia'' forms the sister clade to the other 25 genera of Hamamelidaceae. Flowers of ''Rhodoleia'' are bird-pollinated. Nectar-foraging birds including
Japanese white-eye
The warbling white-eye (''Zosterops japonicus''), also known as the Japanese white-eye and mountain white-eye, is a small passerine bird in the white-eye family. The specific epithet is occasionally written ''japonica'', but this is incorrect due ...
s (''Zosterops japonicus'', Zosteropidae) and
fork-tailed sunbirds (''Aethopyga christinae'', Nectariniidae), avidly visit the flowers, which they also pollinate in the process.
[Gu, L., Z. Luo, D. Zhang, and S. S. Renner. 2010. Passerine pollination of ''Rhodoleia championii'' (Hamamelidaceae) in subtropical China. Biotropica 42(3): 336–341.]
Species include:
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Rhodoleia championii
''Rhodoleia championii'', the Hong Kong rose, is a species of plant in the family Hamamelidaceae. It is a small evergreen tree with dangling scarlet flowers that are pollinated primarily by birds, and is found in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanm ...
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Rhodoleia henryi''
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Rhodoleia macrocarpa''
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Rhodoleia stenopetala''
References
External links
Flora of China
Hamamelidaceae
Saxifragales genera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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