Kirkiaceae

The Kirkiaceae are a plant family within the order of the soap tree -like ( Sapindales ). The six species are widespread in tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar.

Description

There are trees or shrubs. The alternate or spirally arranged on the branch, stalked leaves are pinnate; the leaflets are often perforated.

They are monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ). The flowers are grouped in zymösen inflorescences. The small, unisexual flowers are cruciform. The bloom are divided into sepals and petals. It's just a circle with four free fertile stamens present. It is a discus available. Four carpels are fused into a superior ovaries. The fruit has four wings.

System

Adolf Engler established in 1931 a subfamily within the Kirkioideae Simaroubaceae in The natural plant families, 2nd Edition on. 1967 gave her arms Tachtadschjan in Sistema i Filogeniia Tsvetkovykh Rastenii, p 321 the rank of a family Kirkiaceae. Type genus is Kirkia Oliv .. The generic name honors the Kirkia Scots Sir John Kirk (1832-1922); he was a companion of David Livingstone and collected plants.

The family Kirkiaceae include only one or two genera with about six ways:

• Kirkia Olive. The five species occur in tropical and southern Africa.
• Pleiokirkia Capuron: it contains only one type: Pleiokirkia leandrii Capuron: It comes in Madagascar only in the province of Mahajanga. The wood should smell like honey.

Swell

• The Kirkiaceae in APWebsite family. (Sections systematics and description)
• The Kirkiaceae at DELTA family. ( Description section )