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Franklinia alatamaha W.Bartram ex Marshall

Franklin tree, Franklin tree, Franklin-tree, Franklintree

No habitat climate Photographs not checked

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Summary

Franklinia is a monotypic genus in the tea family, Theaceae. The sole species in this genus is a flowering tree, Franklinia alatamaha, commonly called Franklinias or the Franklin tree, and native to the Altamaha River valley in Georgia in the southeastern United States. It has been extinct in the wild since the early 19th century, but survives as a cultivated ornamental tree.

Text from Wikipedia, “Franklinia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Franklinia

Text from Wikipedia, “Franklinia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Theaceae

Described by

W.Bartram ex Marshall

Native to

not verified

Wild records

60 in range· 39 open

Also known as Franklinia alatama Raf.; Franklinia alatamaha W.Bartram; Franklinia americana Marshall; Franklinia americana Marshall ex Pers.; Gordonia alatamaha (Marshall) Sarg. and 8 more.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeDistribution source did not answer.

Extinct inGeorgia· recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions

Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 39 openly licensed records of 60 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Franklinia alatamaha, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Franklinia alatamaha: Rivers, M.C.

IUCN (2015) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Discovering Life in America: Tools and Techniques of Biodiversity Inventory

Bruce A. Stein, Frank W. Davis (2000) · Oxford University Press eBooks

Effects of Banding and IBA on Rooting and Budbreak in Cuttings of Apple Rootstock ‘MM.106’ and Franklinia

Wen-Quan Sun, Nina Bassuk (1991) · Journal of Environmental Horticulture

Zygotic dormancy underlies prolonged seed development inFranklinia alatamaha(Theaceae): a most unusual case of reproductive phenology in angiosperms

Kristel M. Schoonderwoerd, William E. Friedman (2016) · Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

×Gordlinia grandiflora (Theaceae): An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Franklinia alatamaha and Gordonia lasianthus

Thomas G. Ranney, Paul R. Fantz (2006) · HortScience

Genetic diversity and population structure analysis of Franklinia alatamaha, a tree species existing only in cultivation

Heather J. Gladfelter, Lav K. Yadav, Scott A. Merkle, H. Dayton Wilde (2020) · Tree Genetics & Genomes

×Schimlinia floribunda (Theaceae): A New Intergeneric Hybrid between Franklinia alatamaha and Schima argentea

Thomas G. Ranney, Thomas A. Eaker, Paul R. Fantz, Clifford R. Parks (2003) · HortScience

Differential Resistance of Gordonieae Trees to Phytophthora cinnamomi

Elisabeth Meyer, Thomas G. Ranney, Thomas A. Eaker, Kelly Ivors (2009) · HortScience

Dreaming of Rediscovery: Botanists, Extinction, and the Tree That Sets the Brain on Fire

Kelly Enright (2022) · Environmental History

Adventitious shoot-based propagation of Franklinia alatamaha for commercial horticulture and restoration

Heather J. Gladfelter, Jack Johnston, H. Dayton Wilde, Scott A. Merkle (2020) · In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant

Our American Heritage: Trees

Clarence Lewis (1976) · Arboriculture & Urban Forestry

Germination and Container Production of Franklinia1

R. E. Farmer, S. B. Chase (1977) · HortScience

History & registers

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