Irvingiaceae

Irvingiaceae
Irvingia malayana
Systematics
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Scientific name
Irvingiaceae
Exell & Mendonça

The Irvingiaceae are a family in the order of the Malpighiales (Malpighiales) within the flowering plants (Magnoliopsida). The four genera with about twelve species are common in the tropics. The name Irvingia honors Edward George Irving (1816–1855), a Scottish marine doctor and plant collector.

description

Irvingia smithii , Blütenzweig

Illustration of Klainedoxa gabonensis

The species in the Irvingiaceae family are trees . The alternate leaves are simple and leathery. The stipules are large or very long.

The small flowers are five-fold. They have a clearly recognizable disc, cup and crown. There are rarely nine, mostly ten free stamens . The two or five carpels are fused. A stone fruit or a winged nut fruit is formed.

Systematics and distribution

The Irvingiaceae family was established by Arthur Wallis Exell and Francisco de Ascensão Mendonça .

The Irvingiaceae family has a paleotropic distribution.

The Irvingiaceae family contains three genera with a total of ten species:

• Allantospermum Forman : It contains two types:
  • Allantospermum borneense Forman : It occurs on the Malay Peninsula and Borneo.
  • Allantospermum multicaule (Capuron) Noot. : It occurs in Madagascar.
• Desbordesia Pierre ex Tiegh. : It contains only one type:
  • Desbordesia glaucescens (Engl.) Tiegh. (Syn .: Desbordesia insignis Pierre ex Tiegh. ): It iswidespreadfrom southeastern Nigeria to tropical Central Africa.
• Irvingia Hook. f. (Syn .: Irvingella Tiegh. ): The seven or so species are distributed in tropical Africa and from Indochina to Malesia :
  • Irvingia excelsa Mildbr. : West-Central Tropical Africa.
  • Irvingia gabonensis (Aubry-Lecomte ex O'Rorke) Baill.
  • Irvingia grandifolia (Engl.) Engl .: Nigeria to west-central tropical Africa.
  • Irvingia malayana olive. ex AWBenn. : Indochina to western Malesia.
  • Irvingia robur Mildbr. : West Africa and West-Central Tropical Africa.
  • Irvingia smithii Hook.f. : Nigeria to southern Sudan and northern Angola.
  • Irvingia tenuinucleata Tiegh. : Tropical West Africa to Uganda and Angola.
• Klainedoxa Pierre (Syn .: Condgiea Baill. Ex Tiegh. Nom. Inval.): The only two species are common in tropical Africa:
  • Klainedoxa gabonensis Pierre : It occurs from tropical West Africa to South Sudan and northwestern Zambia.
  • Klainedoxa trillesii Pierre ex Tiegh. : It occurs in West Africa and in west-central tropical Africa.

use

The fruit of Irvingia barteri is used as food and to produce oil. Some types are timber.

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• The family of Irvingiaceae in APWebsite. (Sections systematics and description)
• The Irvingiaceae family at DELTA. (Section description)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
2. ↑ Irvingiaceae in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Irvingiaceae. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved September 19, 2018.

Web links

Commons : Irvingiaceae  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Commercial timbers of the genus Irvingia .