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Taxonomy
The Order Begoniales is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (3): Begoniaceae · Datiscaceae · Tetramelaceae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3,834 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Order Begoniales.
Families
Begoniaceae
Perennial succulent herbs, very rarely subshrubs. Stem erect, frequently rhizomatous, or plants tuberous and either acaulescent or shortly stemmed, rarely lianoid or climbing with adventitious roots, or stoloniferous. Leaves simple, rarely palmately compound, alternate or all basal, petiolate, stipules usually deciduous; blade often oblique and asymmetric, rarely symmetric, margin irregularly serrate and divided, occasionally entire, venation usually palmate. Flowers unisexual, plants monoecious, rarely dioecious, (1 or) 2-4 to several, rarely numerous in dichotomous cyme, sometimes in panicles, with pedicel and bracts. Staminate flower: tepals 2 or 4 and decussate, usually outer ones larger, inner ones smaller; stamens usually numerous; filaments free or connate at base; anthers 2-celled, apical or lateral. Pistillate flower: tepals 2-5(-10), usually free, rarely connate at base; ovary nodding, pendulous, or ascending, 1-3-, rarely 4-8-loculed; placentae axile or parietal; styles 2 or 3(or more), free or fused at base, forked once or more; stigma turgid, spirally twisted-tortuous or U-shaped, capitate or reniform and setose-papillose. Capsule dry, sometimes berrylike, unequally or subequally 3-winged, rarely wingless and 3- or 4-horned; seeds very numerous, minute, oblong, testa pale brown, reticulate.[1] [more]
Datiscaceae
Datiscaceae are a family of plants, containing two species of the genus Datisca. Two other genera, Octomeles and Tetrameles are now classified in the Tetramelaceae family. [more]
Tetramelaceae
More info about the Family Tetramelaceae may be found here.
Bibliography
- Ku Tsuechih. 1999. Begoniaceae. In: Ku Tsuechih, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(1): 126-269.
Footnotes
- Cuizhi Gu, Ching-I Peng & Nicholas J. Turland "Begoniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 151, 153. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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