※ 画像は同属別種 Cardiopteris moluccana の写真です（quinqueloba の画像は現在未収載）。
Cardiopteris
Cardiopteris quinqueloba
カルジオプテリス
A woody climber distributed in Southeast and South Asia. Native to Okinawa in Japan. It bears small flowers and winged fruits. A very small family with limited distribution in Japan.
Identification Points
- ✓Climbing habit, scrambling over shrubs and forest edge vegetation
- ✓Leaves ovate to cordate with long petioles
- ✓Small winged fruits
Habitat
Forest edges and lowland forests of the Nansei Islands (Okinawa)
Season
Summer (flowers)
Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification
Growth form
Vine
Leaf shape
Cordate
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Venation
Pinnate
Evergreen/Deciduous
Evergreen
Petal count
5 petals
Petal fusion
Free
Stipules
Absent
Leaf dissection
Undivided
Flower symmetry
Actinomorphic
Ovary position
Superior
Plant sex
Hermaphrodite
Phylogenetic Positionヤマイモモドキ科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Eudicots > Core eudicots > Aquifoliales > Cardiopteridaceae
Divergence Era
Paleogene to Neogene
Evolution Notes
Cardiopteridaceae is a small family positioned in a relatively ancient lineage of the asterid superorder, centered in Southeast Asia.
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