Garryaceae

Japanese Aukube ( Aucuba japonica cv. 'Variegata ')

The Garryaceae are a family in the order of Garryales within the angiosperms ( Magnoliopsida ).

Description

There are evergreen woody plants: Shrubs or trees. The branches are often initially four leaves, later square. The oppositely arranged leaves are constantly stalked, leathery and easy. The leaf margins are usually smooth. The stomata are paracytisch. Stipules absent.

They make kitten -like inflorescences. They are dioecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( dioecious ). The flowers are surrounded by bracts. The radial symmetry, small flowers are cruciform. The bloom is reduced or absent. If bracts are present, there are two or four in female flowers and four in the male flowers; they are free or fused basally. The male flowers have four stamens. In the female flowers two or rarely three carpels are fused to an inferior ovary. The carpel only one ovule is present.

Forming berries, which contain only one or two rare seeds. The embryo is short.

Dissemination

You have a disjoint area: one is the Garrya of the western United States via Central America to the Caribbean; secondly, the Aucuba in the Asian region of Sikkim and China to Japan.

System

The Garryaceae family was founded in 1834 by John Lindley in Edwards 's Botanical Register, 20, ad t. 1686 set up with Garrya as type genus. A synonym for Garryaceae Lindl. is Aucubaceae J.Agardh. The Garryaceae family includes two genera with about 17 species:

  • Douglas ex Lindl Garrya, sometimes called cup kittens. The approximately 13 species are spread from the western United States via Central America to on Caribbean islands.
  • Aukuben (. Aucuba Thunb ), or kumquat called: The three to ten species are common in East Asia.

Typical chemo systematic feature of the Garryaceae is the occurrence of petroselinic acid as the main fatty acid in both genera.

Swell

  • The Garryaceae in APWebsite family. (Sections Description and systematics)
  • The family of Garryaceae and the family of Aucubaceae at DELTA by L. Watson & MJ Dallwitz. ( Description section )
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