Erythropalaceae

Heisteria acuminata, unripe fruits

The Erythropalaceae is a plant family in the order of sandalwood ( Santalales ) within the angiosperms ( Magnoliopsida ).

Dissemination

The family occurs worldwide in the tropics ( pantropical ). The species have areas of Southeast Asia to New Guinea in the western and central Africa and in Latin America.

Description

There are woody plants: klimmende shrubs or twining vines. Some species have tendrils. They contain essential oils. The plants accumulate aluminum ions. The arranged alternate, long -stalked leaves are simple and entire. Stipules are not available.

The flowers are borne in axillary, loose, two-line, zymösen inflorescences. The small, radial symmetry, hermaphrodite flowers are ( three to six ) usually fünfzählig with double perianth. It is a flower cup ( hypanthium ) available. The most five (three to six) sepals are fused. The most five (three to six) petals are free. There are one or two circles, each with usually five (three to six) free stamens present; If two channels are available then stamen inner stamens are larger than the outer. The most three (two to five) carpels are fused into one under permanent to semi- inferior ovary. The style ends in a simple or lobed stigma.

Are formed fleshy stone fruit.

System

The family contains 13 genera Erythropalaceae, which comprise about 65 species, considering the families Coulaceae Tiegh. , Heisteriaceae Tiegh. , Octoknemaceae Sole Reder, nom. cons. , Scorodocarpaceae Tiegh. , Strombosiaceae Tiegh. and Tetrastylidiaceae Tiegh. involving the family. If they are not included, the family is thus interpreted in the narrow sense, so include only the three genera Erythropalum, Heisteria and Maburea it. Many types of Erythropalaceae were formerly in various tribes of the family of Olacaceae R.Br. classified. Here is the related to the family in a broader sense Erythropalaceae genera:

• Coula Baill. ; with only one type: Coula edulis Baill. ; they occur in tropical West Africa

• Diogoa zenkeri ( Engl ) Exell & Mendonça; they occur in tropical Africa

• Maburea trinervis Maas; it occurs in Guyana

Swell

• The Erythropalaceae in APWebsite family. (English )
• Description of the family of Erythropalaceae at DELTA by L. Watson & MJ Dallwitz.
• David John Mabberley: Mabberley 's Plant -Book. A portable dictionary of plants, Their classification and uses. 3rd ed Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-82071-4