Overview
Taxonomy
The Subfamily Dombeyoideae is a member of the Family Malvaceae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Dombeyoideae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Malvanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Malvales
Dumortier, 1829
- Family: Malvaceae
(mal-VAY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Subfamily: Dombeyoideae
- Family: Malvaceae
(mal-VAY-see-ee)
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Order: Malvales
Dumortier, 1829
- Superorder: Malvanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Rosidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Subfamily Dombeyoideae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Tribe (3): Amygdaleae · Dombeyeae · Helmiopsideae
- Genus (17): Astiria · Burretiodendron · Cheirolaena · Dombeya · Harmsia · Helmiopsiella · Helmiopsis · Melhania · Nesogordonia · Paradombeya · Paramelhania · Pentapetes · Pterospermum · Ruizia · Schoutenia · Sicrea · Trochetia
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 766 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Subfamily Dombeyoideae.
Genera
Astiria
Burretiodendron
Burretiodendron is a genus of flowering plant in the Tiliaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]
Cheirolaena
Dombeya
Dombeya is a genus of approximately 200 species of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family. [more]
Harmsia
Helmiopsiella
Helmiopsis
Melhania
Melhania is a genus of flowering plant in the Sterculiaceae family. It contains the following species: [more]
Nesogordonia
Nesogordonia is a flowering plant genus. Traditionally included in the family Sterculiaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. In that clade, it belongs to the subfamily Dombeyoideae. Nesogordonia is among the oldest living genera of its subfamily, if not the most ancestral one. [more]
Paradombeya
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, serrulate; stipule filiform, caducous. Inflorescence axillary, fascicled, sometimes umbel-like; pedicels articulate; epicalyx lobes 2 or 3, verticillate, near joint. Calyx 5-partite nearly to base; sepals valvate, glabrous. Petals yellow, broadly ovate, unequal, persistent, apex truncate. Stamens 15, in 5 groups of 3, alternating with 5 tongue-shaped staminodes; filaments connate at base into short tube; anthers ovate or elliptic. Ovary sessile, 2-5-loculed, stellate puberulent, cells easily dehiscent; ovules 2 per locule; style elongate, slightly swollen upward, usually 4-5-grooved. Fruit a capsule, nearly globose, locules easily freed from each other, stellate puberulent. Seeds 1 per cell, oblong-ovoid, dark brown.[1] [more]
Paramelhania
Pentapetes
Annual herbs. Leaves alternate; leaf blade simple. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired; epicalyx lobes 3, acute, caducous. Calyx 5-lobed, divided almost to base. Petals 5, red. Stamens 15, in 5 groups of 3 alternating with staminodes, connate at base into tube; staminodes 5, nearly as long as petals; anther 2-celled, extrorse. Ovary sessile, 5-locular; ovules many per locule; style elongated. Capsule ovoid-globose, dehiscent into 5 mericarps. Seeds 8-12 per mericarp, in 2 rows, elliptic, with endosperm; cotyledons 2-divided, plicate.[2] [more]
Pterospermum
Pterospermum is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs belonging to the family Sterculiaceae. Some species are grown ornamentally while others are valued for their timber. [more]
Ruizia
Schoutenia
Schoutenia is a flowering plant genus. Traditionally included in the family Tiliaceae, it is included in the expanded Malvaceae in the APG and most subsequent systematics. [more]
Sicrea
Trochetia
Trochetia is a genus of flowering plants from the family Malvaceae (formerly in the Sterculiaceae, but this family is now usually subsumed in the Malvaceae). They are endemic to the Mascarene Islands. [more]
At least 18 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Trochetia.
More info about the Genus Trochetia may be found here.
Bibliography
- Hsue Hsiang-hao. 1984. Sterculiaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 112-189.
Footnotes
- "Paradombeya". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 303, 330. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
- "Pentapetes". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 303, 326. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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