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Chrysobalanaceae
Sign in to saveChrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees and shrubs in 27 genera and about 700 species of pantropical distribution with a centre of diversity in the Amazon. Some of the species contain silica in their bodies for rigidity and so the mesophyll often has sclerenchymatous idioblasts. The widespread species Chrysobalanus icaco produces a plum-like fruit and the plant is commonly known as the coco plum.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalpighiales
- FamilyChrysobalanaceae
General: to the Trigoniaceae, Euphroniaceae and Dichapetalaceae. The Chrysobalanaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,178
- With media
- 237
- Family
- Chrysobalanaceae
- Collections
- MEL, IBUNAM, BRIT, NY
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Guyana, French Guiana, Belize, Belice, Bolivia (Plurinational State Of), Peru, Cameroon
Research
115 papers- Unraveling the biogeographical history of Chrysobalanaceae from plastid genomes.American journal of botany · 2016
- Isolation and Antimicrobial Activities of Phytochemicals from Parinari curatellifolia (Chrysobalanaceae).Advances in pharmacological and pharmaceutical sciences · 2021
- Fruits and wood of Parinari from the early Miocene of Panama and the fossil record of Chrysobalanaceae.American journal of botany · 2016
- Phenolic Composition, Toxicity Potential, and Antimicrobial Activity of Licania rigida Benth (Chrysobalanaceae) Leaf Extracts.Journal of medicinal food · 2022
- Chromones from Licania arianeae (Chrysobalanaceae).Natural product research · 2005
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- Genera
- References
Chrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees and shrubs in 27 genera and about 700 species of pantropical distribution with a centre of diversity in the Amazon. Some of the species contain silica in their bodies for rigidity and so the mesophyll often has sclerenchymatous idioblasts. The widespread species Chrysobalanus icaco produces a plum-like fruit and the plant is commonly known as the coco plum.
The family was traditionally placed as subfamily Chrysobalanoideae in the rose family (Rosaceae) or as a family in the rose order and exceptionally as an order in Myrtiflorae by Dahlgren. In the phenotypic cladistic analysis of Nandi et al., it branched with Elaeagnaceae as sister group of Polygalaceae, in their molecular cladistic analysis it was in Malpighiales and also in their combined analysis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chrysobalanaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.