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Sycamore family

Published: 2024-11-06 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/06, Latin name: Sterculiaceae English name: introduction to SterculiaFamily: trees or shrubs, sparse herbs or vines; often covered with stellate hairs; stem bark rich in fiber, often mucus. Leaves simple, palmately compound, alternate, sparsely opposite, stipules caducous. Inflorescences axillary, sparsely terminal, panicle, Cymes, racemes or corymbs, sparse flowers solitary; flowers unisexual, polygamous or bisexual; sepals 5 (3-4), slightly connate or separated, valvate; petals 5 or absent, separate or basally connate with androgynophore.

Latin scientific name: Sterculiaceae

English name: SterculiaFamily

Brief introduction:

Trees or shrubs, sparse herbs or vines; often covered with stellate hairs; stem bark rich in fiber, often mucilage. Leaves simple, palmately compound, alternate, sparsely opposite, stipules caducous. Inflorescences axillary, sparsely terminal, panicle, Cymes, racemes or corymbs, sparse flowers solitary; flowers unisexual, polygamous or bisexual; sepals 5 (3-4), slightly connate or separated, valvate; petals 5 or absent, separated or basally connate with androgynophore, rotating imbricate arrangement. Stamens 5 or many, filaments often connate into tubular, ligulate or striate staminodes 5 (10), opposite to sepals, or without staminodes, anthers 2-loculed, longitudinally lobed; ovary superior, 5 (2-12)-loculed, carpels connate or conjoined, 2 (1) or many anatropous ovules per locule. Capsule or pod, sparse for berries or drupes.

68 genera, about 1100 species, distributed in the tropics and subtropics, and some species can reach the temperate zone. There are 82 species belonging to 19 genera in China, which are mainly produced in South and Southwest China, among which 6 genera and 9 species are introduced. Mostly for timber and special economic tree species.

 
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