Overview
Lecythidales is a at the rank of order. The name was used by the Cronquist system for an order placed in subclass Dilleniidae. This order included only the family Lecythidaceae, which family now (in the APG II system) is placed in the order Ericales.
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Taxonomy
The Order Lecythidales is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Family (6): Asteranthaceae · Barringtoniaceae · Foetidiaceae · Lecythidaceae · Napoleonaceae · Napoleonaeaceae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 476 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Order Lecythidales.
Families
Asteranthaceae
Barringtoniaceae
Foetidiaceae
Lecythidaceae
Trees or shrubs, evergreen. Leaves alternate, usually crowded toward apices of branchlets, shortly petiolate; stipules usually absent; leaf blade simple. Flowers showy, borne in short, bracteate racemes or spikes, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, bisexual. Calyx with a campanulate tube adnate to ovary; lobes 4-6, thick. Petals 4-6, free, rarely absent. Stamens many, united at base into several whorls, often several sterile, either monadelphous and equally arranged around disk, or diadelphous in 2 unequal bundles, outermost staminodial; anthers basifixed, 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits. Disk sometimes lobed. Ovary inferior or semi-inferior, 2-6-loculed; ovules 1 to many per locule; placentation axile; style terminal, simple; stigma capitate. Fruit an indehiscent berry or operculate capsule, often crowned by persistent calyx lobes. Seed[s] 1 [to many]; endosperm absent.[1] [more]
Napoleonaceae
Napoleonaeaceae
More info about the Family Napoleonaeaceae may be found here.
Bibliography
- Lo Hsien-shui. 1983. Lecythidaceae. In: Fang Wen-pei & Chang Che-yung, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(2): 121-125.
Footnotes
- Haining Qin & Sir Ghillean (Iain) T. Prance "Lecythidaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 293. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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