alectryon

Alectryon repandodentatus is a species of plant in the Sapindaceae family.

Alectryon oleifolius sheds leaves, more commonly over the summer months.

The name Alectryon is derived from Greek word for "rooster".

Ares turned Alectryon into a rooster, which never forgets to announce the arrival of the sun in the morning.

Alectryon tomentosus is an attractive tree, featuring jagged edged leaves, pink flowers and red fruit.

Alectryon diversifolius grows as a shrub up to 4 m high, with simple leaves often clustered on short branchlets.

Alectryon may refer to:

Alectryon repandodentatus.

Alector, father of one of the Argonauts, referred to by Homer as "Alectryon"

Alectryon is a genus of about 30 species of trees and shrubs known to science, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae.

Alectryon ramiflorus is a species of endangered small seasonal rainforest trees, constituting part of the plant family Sapindaceae.

New Zealand Plant Conservation Network: Alectryon excelsus excelsus.

Homer calls him "Alectryon", and Diodorus "Electryon", naming him among the sons of Itonus.

Both the words Alectryon and Halcyon might have been corrupted from Halaka, one of the old Persian appellations of the sun.

In the field, pepper trees may be confused with Alectryon oleifolius (bullock bush), Santalum acuminatum (quondong) and various Acacia species.

Tītoki Alectryon excelsus, karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus) and kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) are also present.

In Greek mythology, Alectryon was a youth, charged by Ares to stand guard outside his door while the god indulged in illicit love with Aphrodite.

In 1879 Bavarian botanist Ludwig A. T. Radlkofer published updates of numerous species to names within Alectryon.

In 1878 Bavarian botanist Ludwig A. T. Radlkofer formally renamed this species to Alectryon connatus.

The larvae feed on various trees and saplings, including Diploglottis australis, Alectryon, Syzygium smithii and Eucalyptus grandis.

Cleobule, mother of Leitus by Lacritus; alternately, mother of Arcesilaus by Alector (Alectryon.)

The larvae feed on the flowers of Hedera helix, Polyscias elegans, Polyscias sambucifolia, Ceratopetalum gummiferum and Alectryon coriaceus.

Mostly parasitic on species of Acacia, Alectryon, Amyema, Cassia, Casuarinaceae, Eremophila, Exocarpos, and exotic trees, west from Moree district.

The French botanist René Louiche Desfontaines described the bonaree in 1818 as Heterodendrum oleifolium, and it was reclassified in the genus Alectryon in 1987.

The larvae feed on various Acacia species, including Acacia flavescens and Acacia harpophylla, as well as Heterodendrum diversifolium and Alectryon connatus.