Gerrardina

Gerrardina is the only plant genus of the family of Gerrardinaceae in the small order of Huerteales. The home of Gerrardina species is the eastern tropical and southern Africa.

Description

Gerrardina species are small trees or shrubs; they are sometimes klimmend. The alternate arranged leaves are simple. The leaf margin serrate to crenate. There are Stipules present.

The flowers are borne in bunches similar to few zymösen inflorescences. The hermaphroditic, flowers are radial symmetry fünfzählig. The five sepals are fused bell-shaped. There are petals present. It is a cup-shaped discus available. It's just a circle with five free, fertile stamens present; the outer circle is missing. Two carpels are a superior ovaries adherent to four ovules. The style ends in an almost capitate or bifurcated tiny scar.

There are one to viersamige formed, dry or fleshy berries. The endosperm is fleshy.

System

This genus was assigned to the Flacourtiaceae or Salicaceae earlier. The Gerrardinaceae family was erected in 2006 by Mac H. Alford and contains only one genus.

• Gerrardina eylesiana Milne - Redhead: it is in the eastern tropical Africa (Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe) resident.
• Gerrardina foliosa Olive. It occurs only in Natal and Swaziland.

Swell

• The Gerrardinaceae in APWebsite family. (End of 2008)
• Mac H. Alford: The Gerrardinaceae Family at Tree of Life Project, 2007.
• MH Alford: Gerrardinaceae: A new family of African flowering plants unresolved among Brassicales, Huerteales, Malvales, and Sapindales. Taxon 55, 2006, pp. 959-964.
• H. Sleumer: Gerrardina in Flora of Tropical East Africa, 1975.
• H. Wild: Gerrardina in the flora Zambesiaca, Volume 1, 1960, p 261
• Entry in the Flora of Zimbabwe. (English )

• Angiosperms
• Magnoliopsida