Didymeles

Didymeles

The Didymeles are the only plant genus of the family of Didymelaceae within the order of boxwood -like ( Buxales ). The genus and thus the family includes only two species.

Dissemination

The Didymeles species occur only in the northern and eastern Madagascar and the Comoros.

Description

Didymeles species are evergreen trees. The alternate and spirally arranged leaves are petiolate, simple, pinnately and leathery or papery. The leaf margins are smooth. The leaves are yellowish- green in drying. Stipules absent.

They are dioecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( dioecious ). The small, unisexual flowers are reduced. In short paniculate inflorescences, the male flowers are borne. They contain no more than two scales, one to two bloom cladding and only two at their base shortly intergrown, fertile stamens present, with a maximum short stamens. The pollen is tricolpate. In few-flowered, inflorescences aged men, the female flowers are borne. They contain a maximum of four scales, which are interpreted as bracts or bracts, and only a constant upper carpel; it contains only one ovule. The scar is bilobed and oblique.

It formed large, fleshy drupes.

System

In the family there is only one genus with only two species:

• Didymeles Thouars: Didymeles integrifolia J. St. - Hil.
• Didymeles perrieri Leandri

Swell

• The Didymelaceae in APWebsite family. accessed on 11 December 2008
• The Didymelaceae at DELTA family.
• E. Köhler: Didymelaceae, in Klaus Kubitzki: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, IX, Flowering Plants - eudicots, Springer- Verlag, Berlin, 2007, ISBN 3-540-32214-0.