Misplaced Pages

Chrysobalanaceae
Maranthes polyandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Chrysobalanaceae R.Br.
Genera
See text.

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.

Genera

As of February 2023, Plants of the World Online accepted the following genera:

• Acioa Aubl.
• Afrolicania Mildbr.
• Angelesia Korth.
• Atuna Raf.
• Bafodeya Prance ex F.White
• Chrysobalanus L.
• Cordillera Sothers & Prance
• Couepia Aubl.
• Dactyladenia Welw.
• Exellodendron Prance
• Gaulettia Sothers & Prance
• Geobalanus Small
• Grangeria Comm. ex Juss.
• Hirtella L.
• Hunga Prance
• Hymenopus (Benth.) Sothers & Prance
• Kostermanthus Prance
• Leptobalanus (Benth.) Sothers & Prance
• Licania Aubl.
• Magnistipula Engl.
• Maranthes Blume
• Microdesmia (Benth.) Sothers & Prance
• Moquilea Aubl.
• Neocarya (DC.) Prance ex F.White
• Parastemon A.DC.
• Parinari Aubl.
• Parinariopsis (Huber) Sothers & Prance

References

1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. hdl:10654/18083.
2. Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
3. Stephens, P.F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008. http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/APweb/
4. Brummit, R.K. 1992. Vascular Plant Families and Genera. Kew.
5. Lawrence, George. 1960. Taxonomy of Vascular Plants. Macmillan, NY.
6. Nandi, O.L., Chase, M.W., & Endress, P.K. 1998. A combined cladistic analysis of angiosperms using rbcL and non-molecular data sets. Ann. Missouri Bol. Gard. 85: 137-212(docstoc.com).
7. "Chrysobalanaceae R.Br." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-02-23.

• F. Carnevale Neto et al.: Chrysobalanaceae: secondary metabolites, ethnopharmacology and pharmacological potential, "Phytochemistry Reviews" (online), 2012, .

This Malpighiales article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Chrysobalanaceae
• Malpighiales families
• Pantropical flora
• Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
• Malpighiales stubs