Pisonia

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Noun1.Pisonia - genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America
caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
Allioniaceae, family Allioniaceae, family Nyctaginaceae, four-o'clock family, Nyctaginaceae - a family of flowering plants of the order Caryophyllales
Pisonia aculeata, cockspur - small spiny West Indian tree
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V Divya, "New report of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides causing anthracnose of Pisonia alba in India," Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection, vol.
It's restaurant rush hour off the shores of Heron Island, a coral cay sprouting with dense pisonia forest and ringed by a brilliant white halo of sand, off the east coast of Australia at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.
The most common species were: goiaba brava (Eugenia sp.), joao mole (Pisonia sp.), canela de velho (Cenostigma gardnerianum), marmela (Desmodium discolor), agoita cavalo (Luehea sp.), figueirinha da caatinga (unidentified) and pau de casca (unidentified).
-- 1 IV Lantana camara -- 1 IV Urochloa humidicola -- 1 IV Lianas Pisonia aculeata -- 1 V Smilax havanensis -- 1 V Stigmaphyllon sagreanum -- 1 V Gouania lupuloides -- 1 V Serjania diversifolia -- 1 V Chiococca alba -- 1 V Turbina corymbosa -- 1 IV Tragia hexandra -- 1 IV Epiphytes Tillandsia fasciculata -- 1 IV Scattered species in the canopy layer: cedar (Cedrela odorata), carbonero, bijaguara (Colubrina ferruginosa), guama (Lonchocarpus domingensis), penda, roble (Tabebuia sp.), mamoncillo (Melicoccus bijugatus), mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), yaiti, bone and curbana (Canella alba).
Gillett/ Burseraceae Jatoba/ Hymenaea SP/Leguminosae 54 9 151 Brazilian Grape Tree/ Jabuticaba/ 2 39 4 Myrcia cauliflora Berg/ Myrtaceae Joao Mole/ Pisonia tormentosa Casar/ 10 14 Nictaginaceae Leopard tree/ Juca/ Pau-ferro/ 14 2 3 Caesalpinia ferrea Mart./ Fabaceae Juazeiro/ Ziziphus joazeiro Mart./ 17 4 2 Rhamnaceae Tepezcohuite/ Jurema preta/Mimosa 185 8 1 tenuiflora Willd.(Poir)/ Mimosaceae Jurema branca/ Mimosa hostilis (Mart.) 6 1 34 7 Benth./ Mimosaceae Jurubeba/ Solanum sp./ Solanaceae 15 2 3 Bay leaf/ Louro/Laurus mobilis L.
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