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Olea
Sign in to saveOlea ( ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae. It includes 30-40 species native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Middle East, southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and Australasia. They are evergreen trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire leaves. The fruit is a drupe. Leaves of Olea contain trichosclereids.
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Olea is a taxon at the genus rank. It is classified within the family Oleaceae and is a subclass of tree. The type species for this taxon is Olea europaea. The genus produces fruit of the drupe type, which is blue in color. Common names for the group include olive, oljka, and 木犀榄属.
The taxon has been described in sources such as the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. According to Plants of the World, the genus is found in general and tropical regions, with one species recorded in New Guinea. It has been introduced to locations including Argentina Northeast, Ascension, Bermuda, China Southeast, Corse, Egypt, France, Hainan, Hawaii, Iraq, Korea, and Krym.
A separate marine genus also named Olea is accepted in the family Limapontiidae, class Gastropoda, and phylum Mollusca. This marine taxon was described by Agersborg in 1923.
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Species
Genus
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- FamilyLimapontiidae
Il genere Olea L., 1753 appartiene alla famiglia delle Oleaceae. Esso comprende (a seconda delle classificazioni) da 5 a circa 30 specie di piccoli alberi o grandi arbusti sempreverdi. Questi alberi hanno foglie opposte, piccole e indivise; il frutto è una drupa. Si trovano allo stato naturale in varie zone del mondo, nel bacino del Mediterraneo, nell'Africa meridionale, nell'Asia sudorientale, in Nuova Caledonia e in Australia orientale. Il membro più famoso è di gran lunga l'olivo coltivato, Olea europaea, che è stato utilizzato sin dai tempi più antichi per l'olio e per mangiare il frutto, che essendo assai amaro allo stato naturale, dev'essere soggetto a una fermentazione naturale o messo sotto salamoia per poter essere consumato.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 373
- With media
- 283
- Family
- Limapontiidae
- Collections
- CAS, NY, A, MO
- Recorded in
- United States, Uganda, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Indonesia, Tanzania, India, Malaysia, Philippines
Research
7,285 papers- Olea europaea L-derived secoiridoids: Beneficial health effects and potential therapeutic approaches.Pharmacology & therapeutics · 2024
- Olive (Olea europaea L.) Genetic Transformation: Current Status and Future Prospects.Genes · 2021
- The Anti-cancer Effect of Olea europaea L. Products: a Review.Current nutrition reports · 2021
- Olive Leaf (Olea europaea L. folium): Potential Effects on Glycemia and Lipidemia.Annals of nutrition & metabolism · 2020
- Chemical analysis, biological and therapeutic activities of Olea europaea L. extracts.Natural product research · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
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Olea ( ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae. It includes 30-40 species native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Middle East, southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and Australasia. They are evergreen trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire leaves. The fruit is a drupe. Leaves of Olea contain trichosclereids.
For humans, the most important and familiar species is by far the olive (Olea europaea), native to the Mediterranean region, Africa, southwest Asia, and the Himalayas, which is the type species of the genus. The native olive (O. paniculata) is a larger tree, attaining a height of 15–18 m in the forests of Queensland, and yielding a hard and tough timber. The yet harder wood of the black ironwood O. capensis, an inhabitant of Natal, is important in South Africa.
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