dcsimg

Description

provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Trees up to 30 m. or shrubs with leaves alternate, simple, entire or serrate, penninerved; stipules small or absent. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary cyme or raceme. Flowers bisexual, ± regular, ± hypogynous, in racemose to cymose inflorescences, mostly 5-merous. Sepals ± imbricate, petals free, imbricate or convolute, persistent in fruit. Stamens 5, 10, 15 or 20, in 1 whorl. Ovary superior or slightly inferior, syncarpous, carpels 5 with simple style and stigma. Locules often divided incompletely by outgrowths of the carpel wall, with 2 pendulous ovules in each locule. Fruit a capsule with valves splitting away from the central column.
license
cc-by-nc
copyright
Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Ixonanthaceae Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=285
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe

Ixonanthaceae

provided by wikipedia EN

Ixonanthaceae is a pantropical flowering plant family of trees or shrubs, consisting of about 30 species in 3 or 4 genera.[2] It is a broadleaf evergreen.[3]

References

  1. ^ Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
  2. ^ Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/
  3. ^ Yang, Q; Li, M; Wang, B; Li, R; Wang, C (2003). "[Dynamics of biomass and net primary productivity in succession of south subtropical forests in southwest Guangdong]". Ying Yong Sheng Tai Xue Bao. 14 (12): 2136–40. PMID 15031902.
license
cc-by-sa-3.0
copyright
Wikipedia authors and editors
original
visit source
partner site
wikipedia EN

Ixonanthaceae: Brief Summary

provided by wikipedia EN

Ixonanthaceae is a pantropical flowering plant family of trees or shrubs, consisting of about 30 species in 3 or 4 genera. It is a broadleaf evergreen.

license
cc-by-sa-3.0
copyright
Wikipedia authors and editors
original
visit source
partner site
wikipedia EN