Lecythidaceae

Belongs within: Ericales.

The Lecythidaceae are a pantropical group of flowering trees and shrubs with showy flowers. Members include the Old World tropical genus Barringtonia, of which the fish poison tree B. asiatica is grown as an ornamental shade tree while its seeds are used to prepare fish poison. This genus belongs to the Barringtonioideae, of which members have syntricolporate pollen and reversed cortical bundles with internal phloem.

Characters (Flora of China): Trees or shrubs, evergreen. Leaves alternate, usually crowded toward apices of branchlets, shortly petiolate; stipules usually absent; leaf blade simple. Flowers showy, borne in short, bracteate racemes or spikes, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, bisexual. Calyx with a campanulate tube adnate to ovary; lobes 4-6, thick. Petals 4-6, free, rarely absent. Stamens many, united at base into several whorls, often several sterile, either monadelphous and equally arranged around disk, or diadelphous in 2 unequal bundles, outermost staminodial; anthers basifixed, 2-celled, opening by longitudinal slits. Disk sometimes lobed. Ovary inferior or semi-inferior, 2-6-loculed; ovules 1 to many per locule; placentation axile; style terminal, simple; stigma capitate. Fruit an indehiscent berry or operculate capsule, often crowned by persistent calyx lobes. Seed(s) 1 to many; endosperm absent.

<==Lecythidaceae [Lecythidineae]
    |  i. s.: Gustavia superbaMM96
    |         Eschweilera Martius ex DC. 1828S62
    |           `--E. odorataF11
    |         Couratari scottmoriiC09
    |         Couroupita guianensisW09
    |         Barringtonioxylon deccanense Shallom 1960CBH93
    |         LecythidospermumCBH93
    |         Marginipollis concinnusCBH93
    |         Cariniana pyriformisH02
    |--Foetidia [Foetidioideae]T00
    |--Asteranthos [Asteranthoideae, Scytopetaloideae]T00
    |--LecythisDL99 [LecythidoideaeT00]
    |    `--L. amplaDL99
    |--NapoleonoideaeT00
    |    |--CrateranthusT00
    |    `--NapoleonaeaK01
    `--Barringtonioideae [Barringtoniaceae, Planchonioideae]T00
         |--CareyaM72
         |    |--C. arboreaS02
         |    `--C. australisB88
         |--PlanchoniaLK14
         |    |--P. careyaLK14
         |    |--P. papuanaC78
         |    |--P. rupestrisLK14
         |    `--P. validaA78
         `--BarringtoniaCW92
              |--B. acutangulaLK14
              |--B. asiaticaP88
              |--B. calyptrataCW92
              |--B. conoideaP88
              |--B. luzoniensisBMM99
              |--B. racemosaSB12
              |--B. speciosaYZ02
              `--B. yunnanensisBMM99

*Type species of generic name indicated

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