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DICOTYLEDON - ROSIDAE - MALPIGHIALES - Dichapetalaceae

Compiled by R.H. Archer

Description:

  • Trees, shrubs, or rhizomatous shrublets; sometimes very poisonous
  • Leaves alternate, simple, entire, petiolate; stipules caducous
  • Flowers bisexual or unisexual, regular or irregular; in corymbose cymes
  • Sepals 5, free or partially connate, imbricate
  • Petals 5, inserted with sepals, free or united with stamens into a tube, often narrow, 2-fid or 2-lobed
  • Disc often of 5 free glands opposite petals, sometimes connate into an entire or lobed cup
  • Stamens 5, alternating with petals, free or united; anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits
  • Ovary superior, 2- or 3(4)-locular, with 2 apical-axile pendulous ovules in each locule, often hairy; style mostly simple or 2- or 3(4)-fid
  • Fruit a drupe with 1-3(4) one-seeded free pyrenes
  • Seeds: embryo large, straight, oily; endosperm 0 or rarely present

Nomenclature:

  • Dichapetalaceae
    • Harvey: 450 (1860) under Chailletiaceae
    • Torre: 319 (1963)
    • Breteler: 1 (1986)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Genera 3, species ± 160, circumtropical with few in subtropics
  • Southern Africa: Genera 2, species 3

References:

  • BRETELER, F.J. 1986. The African Dichapetalaceae IX. A taxonomic revision. Agricultural University Wageningen papers 86-3
  • HARVEY, W.H. 1860. Chailletiaceae. Flora capensis 1
  • TORRE, A.R.1963. Dichapetalaceae. Flora zambesiaca 2

Resources:

  • Dichapetalaceae genera:
Dichapetalum Tapura    

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