Chuniophoeniceae
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The Chuniophoeniceae are a tribe of the palm family (Arecaceae).
features
The representatives of the Chuniophoeniceae are very versatile in their reproductive and vegetative morphology. They are once ( hapaxanth ) or several times flowering, hermaphroditic or dioecious unisexual ( dioecious ). The leaves are folded induplicate. They are palmat or costapalmat. The flowers are solitary or in simple coils . Each flower stands in the axilla of a completely tubular bract . The gynoeceum is synkarp, the three carpels are fused at the base. The stylus are separated or continuously fused.
distribution
The tribe has a very disjointed area : there are representatives in Madagascar , in Arabia and the Middle East as well as in East Asia on the Malay Peninsula and in southern China to northern Vietnam .
Systematics
The Chuniophoeniceae are assigned to the subfamily Coryphoideae within the Arecaceae family . The tribes as defined by Dransfield et al. (2008) is a natural kin group ( Monophylum ). Its sister group is the group from Caryoteae , Corypheae and Borasseae , with which it forms the syncarpic clade .
Four genera are counted to the tribe:
supporting documents
- John Dransfield, Natalie W. Uhl, Conny B. Asmussen, William J. Baker, Madeline M. Harley, Carl E. Lewis: Genera Palmarum. The Evolution and Classification of Palms . Second edition, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2008, ISBN 978-1-84246-182-2 , p. 287.
