Cyrilla

Cyrilla racemiflora, flourishing on Roraima, Venezuela

Cyrilla racemiflora is a plant from the family of Cyrillaceae and the only species of the genus Cyrilla.

Description

Cyrilla racemiflora is an evergreen or deciduous small tree or shrub. The flower stalk has two permanent bracteoles, the petals are thickened and occupied on the top in the middle and below the center with glands. The five stamens are antepetal, the stamens are commended shaped.

The ovaries are two to vierfächrig hanging each subject one to three ovules, the permanent pen is short and has two to four short style branches on. The fruit is längsgefurcht, for each subject there is a seed that often lack the seeds.

The chromosome number is 2n = 40

Dissemination

The species is found from northern South America to the southeastern United States, including the Caribbean.

System

The 1753 by Carl Linnaeus first described for a description of Alexander Garden Art was temporarily divided into up to eleven individual species in 1960 but rejected all of JLThomas, the genus has since been understood as monotypic. Together with the genus Cyrilla Cliftonia forms the family of Cyrillaceae. Since Cliftonia is monotypic, so the family includes only two species.

Evidence

• Klaus Kubitzki: Cyrillaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales, 2004, pp. 115, ISBN 978-3-540-06512 - 8