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Description
Family Phytolaccaceae
Herbs or shrubs
, rarely trees
, erect
, rarely scandent
, mostly glabrous
, rarely dioecious. Leaves simple
, alternate, entire; stipules absent or tiny. Inflorescences terminal
, axillary
, or leaf-opposed, racemose, cymose
, panicled
, or spicate
. Flowers small, bisexual
or rarely unisexual
, actinomorphic
, rarely zygomorphic. Tepals 4 or 5, persistent
, free
or connate
at base
, equal or unequal, imbricate in bud, green or sometimes other colored
. Stamens 4 to many, inserted
on a fleshy
disk; filaments
usually persistent, free or slightly connate at base; anthers
2-loculed, dorsifixed
, longitudinally dehiscent
. Ovary superior, globose
; carpels 1 to many, free or connate; ovule solitary in each carpel, basal, campylotropous. Styles persistent, short or absent, erect or curved
, as many as carpels. Fruit fleshy, a berry or drupe, rarely a capsule. Seeds reniform
or oblate
, small; testa membranous or hard and fragile, smooth
or wrinkly; embryo large, curved, surrounding copious
mealy
endosperm.
Seventeen genera and ca.
70 species: widespread in tropical
and temperate regions
, especially in the neotropics and S Africa; two genera (one introduced
) and five species (one endemic, two introduced) 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:
Caryophyllidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Caryophyllanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Caryophyllales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Suborder:
Phytolaccineae
()
- Family:
Phytolaccaceae
()
- R. Brown, 1818
- pokeweed
- Subfamily:
Rivinoideae
()
- Genus:
Seguieria
()
- Loefling, 1758
- Specific epithet:
guaranitica
- Heimerl
- Variety:
microphylla
- Botanical name: - Seguieria guaranitica var. microphylla Heimerl
- Variety:
microphylla
- Specific epithet:
guaranitica
- Heimerl
- Genus:
Seguieria
(
- Subfamily:
Rivinoideae
(
- Family:
Phytolaccaceae
(
- Suborder:
Phytolaccineae
(
- Order:
Caryophyllales
(
- Superorder:
Caryophyllanae
(
- Subclass:
Caryophyllidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Heimerl Publication : Verh. K .K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 62: 11 1912 .
Similar Species
Members of the genus Seguieria
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Further Reading
- Lu Dequan. 1996. Phytolaccaceae. In: Tang Changlin, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 29: 1420.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 16, 2012.
Identifiers
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4601926
Footnotes
- Dequan Lu & Kai Larsen "Phytolaccaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 435. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
