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Taxonomy

Physical Description

Family Dilleniaceae:

Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers, rarely herbs; hairs sclerified and/or silicified, sometimes fasciculate. Leaves simple, rarely pinnatisect or pinnately compound, usually spirally arranged, rarely opposite, petiolate; stipules absent; petiole sometimes winged; leaf blade leathery, herbaceous, or membranous, margin entire or serrate. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual, actinomorphic, occasionally zygomorphic, solitary or in racemes, panicles or cymes. Sepals (3 or) 4-5(-18), imbricate, persistent, usually leathery or fleshy, sometimes accrescent in fruit. Petals (2 or) 3-5(-7), white, yellow, or red, imbricate, crumpled in bud. Stamens numerous (or 1-10), developing centrifugally, free or united basally and then in fascicles; staminodes often present; anthers basifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, apical clefts, or apical pores. Gynoecium (1 or) 2-7(-20) -carpellate, superior; carpels free or hemisyncarpous; stylodia free, apically stigmatic; ovules 1 to numerous, anatropous; placentation submarginal, or basal when ovules 1 or 2. Fruit a follicle, polyfollicle, berry, or capsule, or indehiscent and enclosed by fleshy sepals. Seeds 1 to numerous; endosperm copious, oily; embryo very small, straight, achlorophyllous.

Ten genera and ca. 500 species: pantropical and extending into warm-temperate Australia; two genera and five species in China.^[1]

Distribution

Similar Species

Members of the genus Hibbertia:

There are approximately 485 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: H. spicata leptotheca · H. acerosa · H. acerosa var. acerosa · H. acerosa var. ulicifolia · H. acicularis · H. acicularis var. acicularis · H. acicularis var. sessiliflora · H. acicularis var. triandra · H. acrotrichion · H. acuminata · H. aff vestita · H. agrestis · H. altigena · H. amplexicaulis · H. ancistrophylla · H. ancistrotricha · H. andrewsiana · H. androsaemcides · H. androsaemoides · H. angustifolia · H. appressa · H. arcuata · H. argentea · H. argentea var. argentea · H. argentea var. diffusa · H. arnhemica · H. aspera · H. aspera aspera · H. aspera pilosifolia · H. aspera subsp. pilosifolia · H. astrophylla · H. astrotricha · H. aubertii · H. aurea · H. aurea var. aurea · H. aurea var. brevifolia · H. aurea var. obtusa · H. australis · H. avonensis · H. axillibarba · H. balansaeana · H. banksii · H. banksii f. banksii · H. banksii f. rigidula · H. banksii forma rigidula · H. baoudinii · H. basaltica · H. basitricha · H. baudouinii · H. bennettii · H. benthami · H. benthamii · H. billardierei · H. billardierei var. billardierei · H. billardierei var. monadelpha · H. billardierei var. obovata · H. billardierei var. ovata · H. billardierei var. parviflora · H. billardierei var. scabra · H. billardieri · H. bognorensis · H. bouletii · H. brachyphylla · H. bracteata · H. bracteosa · H. brongniartii · H. brownei · H. brownii · H. bupleurifolia · H. calycina · H. camforosma · H. camphorosma · H. candicans · H. canescens · H. carinata · H. catargyrea · H. charlesii · H. chartacea · H. cinerascens · H. cinerea · H. circumdans · H. cistiflora · H. cistiflora rostrata · H. cistiflora subsp. rostrata · H. cistifolia · H. cistoidea · H. commutata · H. comptonii · H. concinna · H. confertifolia · H. conspicua · H. coriacea · H. coriacea commersonii · H. corifolia · H. covenyana · H. crassifolia · H. crenata · H. crinita · H. crispula · H. cuneifolia

Bibliography

• Chang Hung-ta. 1984. Dilleniaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 190-195.

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Notes

Identifiers:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15931576
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:119660-3
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3375708

Footnotes:

1. Zhixiang Zhang & Klaus Kubitzki "Dilleniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 331. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.