Links to Menodora and the Oleaceae

This site will be periodically updated and hopefully more organized!

GENERAL OLEACEAE LINKS

Eva Wallander's home page, with lots of great information on the Olive family. Check out her:

Type specimens of the Oleaceae at NYBG

The DELTA description of the family, with illustrations and a few literary quotes

The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) listing for the family

MENODORA LINKS

Photos of Menodora heterophylla from the Noble Foundation

A photo of Menodora integrifolia from CRIBABB in Argentina

The Natives of Texas (a native plant nursery in Kerrville, Texas) listing for Menodora longiflora (with photo)

A small photo of Menodora longiflora is in the Wildflower Gallery at Guadalupe Mountains National Park

A photo of a flower and fruits of Menodora scabra from Arizona State University

A nice watercolor by Mike Plagens of Menodora scabra from the Sonoran Desert Naturalist online field guide

A SEM of the pollen of Menodora scabra from the University of Arizona

Photos of Menodora spinescens from the Digital Library Project at Cal-Berkeley

A photo of M. spinescens from Tom Schweich's excellent website, Eastern Mojave Vegetation

A description of Menodora spinescens and its habitat (with photo) from Loyola Marymount University

Pictures of habitats in which Menodora occurs as a principal forb from Texas Parks & Wildlife

A few places to see Menodora:

Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, Austin, Texas; newsletter (M. longiflora)
Battle Mountain: Yellow Hills, a BLM grazing allotment in Nevada (M. spinescens)
Battle Mountain: Sheep Mountain, a BLM grazing allotment in Nevada (M. spinescens)
Battle Mountain: White Sage, a BLM grazing allotment in Nevada (M. spinescens)
Beaver Creek Biosphere Preserve, University of Arizona (M. scabra)
Beaver Creek Watershed Evaluation Project, Northern Arizona University (M. scabra)
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, Arizona (M. scabra)
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, a USFWS reserve in Arizona (M. scabra)
Desert Botanic Garden, Phoenix, Arizona (M. scabra; Index Seminum)
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, BLM/NPS park in Utah (M. scabra)
Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas (M. longiflora)
Jornada LTER, New Mexico State University (M. scabra)
Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (M. scabra)
Kunze ghosttown, Mojave Desert, California (M. spinescens)
Las Vegas Springs Preserve. Las Vegas, Nevada (M. spinescens)
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, a BLM site in Nevada (M. spinescens)
Sevilleta LTER, University of New Mexico (M. scabra)
Saguaro National Park, Arizona (M. scabra)
Squaw Peak & Dreamy Draw Parks, Phoenix, Arizona (M. scabra)

Soil series where Menodora occurs as a principal component:

The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) listing for the family, including maps of the distribution in Texas for:

The distribution of Menodora scabra in Utah

The GRIN database listing for Menodora

The CALFLORA listings for Menodora, including pictures, maps, and specimen data for: