Schisandraceae

Kadsura japonica

The Sternanisgewächse ( Schisandraceae ) are a family of plants in the order of Austrobaileyales. The areas of the species range from Sri Lanka Southeast Asia to the western Malay Archipelago, and of the southeastern United States, to eastern Mexico and the Greater Antilles. One known type is the real star anise ( Illicium verum).

Description

There are woody plants: shrubs, trees and lianas. There are oil or mucous glands present. They contain essential oils. The change-constant leaves are simple, herbaceous to coriaceous and petiolate. The leaf margin is smooth or serrated. Stipules absent.

The flowers are more or less radial symmetry ( spiral ) built up spirally, not in whorls. The perianth consists of helically arranged ( five to ) twelve to many bloom cladding, in which either a gradual transition from cup to - petals can be observed or bloom all are made ​​equal. In Schisandra and Kadsura the flowers are unisexual, in Illicium hermaphrodite. In male and hermaphrodite flowers four to many fertile stamens are present. There are tricolpate pollen grains present. In female and hermaphrodite flowers free, upper permanent carpels are ( five to ) seven to 15 ( to many to 21 ) available.

There are follicles or berries formed or the fruits are interpreted as collective fleshy fruit with zweisamigigen part fruit.

System

The botanical name is derived from the Greek words: schizein for column and recognized, andros for man, male organ from, this refers to the separate counters some Schisandra species. Synonyms for Schisandraceae flower are: Illiciaceae Berchtold & Presl. and Kadsuraceae Radogizky.

The family includes three genera with about 92 species.

  • Star anise ( Illicium L.): With 42 species.
  • Schisandra ( Schisandra Michx. ): Also referred to as " Spaltkölbchen ", with about 30 species (mainly in Asia, only one in North America ), including: Chinese Schisandra ( Schisandra chinensis ( Turcz. ) Baill. ), Origin: Amur region, China, Korea, Japan, Sakhalin
  • Großblütiges Schisandra ( Schisandra grandiflora Hook f & Thomson. ), Origin: Himachal Pradesh in India to southwest China and Myanmar
  • Schisandra repanda ( Siebold & Zucc. ) A. C. Sm, Origin: Japan and South Korea
  • Rotblühendes Schisandra ( Schisandra rubriflora Rehder & EH Wilson; Syn: S. grandiflora var rubriflora ( Rehder & EH Wilson) CK Schneid. ); Home: India ( Assam ), West China
  • Schisandra sphenanthera Rehder & E. H. Wilson, Origin: China

Swell

  • The Schisandraceae in APWebsite family. (English )
  • Short description of the Botanical Garden of Tübingen. ( German )
  • R.M.K. Saunders: Schisandraceae in Species Plantarum: Flora of the World, Part 4, Canberra, Australian Biological Resources Study, 2001, 62 pages.. .
  • T. Brain & I.-C. Oh: Phylogeny of Schisandraceae based on morphological data: evidence from modern plants and the fossil record, in Plant Systematics and Evolution, Volume 256, pp. 113-145, Springer- Verlag, 2005.
  • The family at DELTA. There only two genera. (English )
  • Yuhu Liu, Nianhe Xia, Liu Yuhu & Richard MK Saunders: Schisandraceae in the Flora of China, Volume 7, page 39: Description of taxa and identification keys without Illicium - Online. (English )
  • Michael A. Vincent: Schisandraceae in the Flora of North America, Volume 3: Description - with only two genera. (English )
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