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Description
Family Connaraceae
Trees
small, shrubs
, or vines
, erect
or scandent
, evergreen
or deciduous. Leaves alternate, exstipulate
, petiolate
; leaf blade
odd-pinnate, 3-foliolate, or 1-foliolate; leaflets
subopposite or alternate, usually leathery, margin
entire, rarely lobulate
. Inflorescences terminal
, pseudoterminal, or axillary
, paniculate
or racemose, bracteate
. Flowers bisexual
, rarely unisexual
, actinomorphic
, small. Sepals (4 or) 5, free
or united
at very base
only, imbricate or valvate
, persistent
and clasping
base of fruit. Petals (4 or) 5, free, rarely slightly connate
at middle
, imbricate or valvate, rarely circinate
. Stamens 5–10, hypogynous or perigynous, in 2 whorls alternately longer
and shorter, those opposite petals often shorter and abortive
; filaments
free or shortly connate at base; anthers
didymous
, dorsifixed
in proximal
1/2, introrse
, short, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk thin or absent, surrounded by base of stamens. Carpels (1–) 5(–8), free, 1-celled, hirsute
. Style subulate
or filiform
; stigma subcapitate
, simple
or 2-lobed. Ovules 2 in each carpel (1 sometimes sterile
), collateral
, erect. Fruit a usually solitary follicle, sessile or stipitate
, dehiscing usually along adaxial
suture, sometimes along abaxial
one, very rarely circumscissile at base, sometimes indehiscent. Seed 1(or 2), erect, usually arillate
, rarely exarillate
; testa thick; aril colored
, fleshy
; endosperm present or absent; embryo straight; cotyledons thick and fleshy in exalbuminous
seeds, thin in albuminous
ones.
Between 12 and 24 genera and 180–390 species: mainly in Africa and tropical
Asia, some species in the subtropics, only a few species in the New World; six genera and nine species (one endemic) in China.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- 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:
Rutanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Oxalidales
()
- Heintze, 1927
- Family:
Connaraceae
()
- R. Brown, 1818
- Connarus Family
- Genus:
Omphalobium
()
- Specific epithet:
pentagonum
- DC.
- Botanical name: - Omphalobium pentagonum DC.
- Specific epithet:
pentagonum
- DC.
- Genus:
Omphalobium
(
- Family:
Connaraceae
(
- Order:
Oxalidales
(
- Superorder:
Rutanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : DC. Publication : Prodr. (DC.) 2: 86 1825 [mid Nov 1825]
Similar Species
Members of the genus Omphalobium
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Further Reading
- Chen Shao-xing. 1986. Connaraceae. In: Yü Te-tsun, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 38: 133150.
Notes
Contributors
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10613270
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:264670-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 264670-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1239174
Footnotes
- Lingdi Lu & Nicholas J. Turland "Connaraceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 435. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
