Centrolepidaceae
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The Centrolepidaceae are a small family of plants belonging to the order of the sweet grass-like (Poales). The species of the Centrolepidaceae have their areas in temperate to tropical areas in Southeast Asia , Australasia and South America .
description
The species of the Centrolepidaceae are small, grass or moss-like, annual or perennial herbaceous plants ; in annual species the leaves are concentrated at the base of the plant (basal). The alternate and spirally arranged leaves on the stem are simple, sessile, parallel-veined and with entire margins.
They are single sexed ( monoecious ). The inflorescences are pseudanthia , in which many female and male flowers are combined, or there are purely male and purely female inflorescences; the flowers are rarely solitary. The flowers are unisexual or rarely hermaphroditic. Bracts are missing. The male flowers contain only one fertile stamen . The female flowers have one or many free, upper carpels and an equal number of styles. Pollination takes place by the wind ( anemophilia ).
Several small follicles are grouped into a capsule-like collective fruit. The tiny seeds contain starch .
Systematics
The Centrolepidaceae family was established by Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher . The species of the Hanguanaceae family were spun off in 1975 so that the Centrolepidaceae family is monophyletic .
There are only about three (to five) genera with about eleven to 40 species in the Centrolepidaceae family:
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Aphelia
R.Br. ( Syn . : Brizula Hieron. ). Note: In zoology, Aphelia Huebner 1825 is a genus of the tortrices (Tortricidae). The approximately six plant species are distributed from southwest to southeast Australia , including Tasmania:
- Aphelia brizula F. Muell.
- Aphelia cyperoides R.Br.
- Aphelia drummondii (Hieron.) Benth. (Syn .: Brizula drummondii Hieron. )
- Aphelia gracilis Sond. (Syn .: Brizula gracilis (Sond.) Hieron. )
- Aphelia nutans Benth. (Syn .: Brizula nutans (Benth.) AWHill )
- Aphelia pumilio F. Muell. ex Sond.
- Centrolepis Labill. (Syn .: Alepyrum Hieron. , Alepyrum R.Br. , Devauxia R.Br. nom. Superfl., Pseudalepyrum Dandy ): The approximately 25 species are from the southern Chinese province of Hainan (a species) via Cambodia , Vietnam , Thailand , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines , Papua New Guinea , Australia, New Zealand up to the Pacific Islands.
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Gaimardia Gaudich. : There are about four species in a disjoint area in the southern hemisphere:
- Gaimardia amblyphylla W.M.Curtis : She comes to Tasmania before.
- Gaimardia australis Gaud. : It is the only species of family found in southern (Antarctic) South America in the Magellan region and the Falkland Islands .
- Gaimardia fitzgeraldii F. Muell. & Rodw. : It occurs only in western Tasmania .
- Gaimardia setacea Hook. f. : It occurs on Mt. Wichmann in New Guinea, in Tasmania on New Zealand's South Island.
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- The Centrolepidaceae family on the AP website . (Sections systematics and description)
- The family of Centrolepidaceae at DELTA by L. Watson and MJDallwitz. (Section description)
- Leslie Watson: The Centrolepidaceae Family in the Flora of Western Australia . (Section description)
- Guofang Wu, Kai Larsen: Centrolepidaceae. , P. 3 - online with the same text as the printed work , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China. Volume 24: Flagellariaceae through Marantaceae , Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 2000, ISBN 0-915279-83-5 . (Sections Description and Distribution)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Centrolepidaceae in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Data sheet at World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on December 3, 2014