Peraceae

Peraceae
	Clutia ericoides , illustration
Systematics
	Eudicotyledons
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
	Rosids
	Eurosiden I
Order :	Malpighiales (Malpighiales)
Family :	Peraceae
Scientific name
	Peraceae
	Klotzsch

The Peraceae are a family in the order of the Malpighiales (Malpighiales) within the flowering plants (Magnoliopsida). This family has a pantropical distribution.

description

All species are evergreen , woody plants: trees or shrubs . The mostly alternate, or rarely opposite, arranged leaves are simple and short-stalked. The leaf margins are smooth. Stipules are present or absent.

They are single-sexed ( monoecious ) or double-sexed ( dioecious ). Three to four flowers stand together in head- shaped inflorescences ; either only flowers of one sex or mixed. The radial symmetry flowers are unisexual. There are only four to six bracts , they may be absent in male flowers. The male flowers contain a circle with two to five (to eight) fertile stamens . In the female flowers are three carpels to syncarp, Upper permanent ovary overgrown, with a pencils with one or three scars. There are fruit capsules formed.

Pera glabrata

Systematics

The Peraceae are closely related to the Rafflesiaceae and Euphorbiaceae (they have in common, for example, that flower organs are partially reduced and their ovaries are formed from three carpels). In the family of the Peraceae there are four or five genera with about 135 species:

Chaetocarpus Thwaites : With around 16 species in the tropics and subtropics
Clutia Boerh. ex L .: With about 56 species in Africa and Arabia
Pera Mutis : With about 37 species in Mexico and tropical America, including:
- Pera bicolor (Klotzsch) garbage. Arg . : South America.
- Pera bumeliifolia Griseb. : Cuba, Hispaniola, Bahamas, Puerto Rico.
- Pera ekmanii Urb. : Cuba.
- Pera glabrata (Schott) Baill. ex garbage. Arg . : Northern South America, Bolivia, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Pera heteranthera (closet) IM Johnst. : Brazil.
- Pera ovalifolia Urb. : Eastern Cuba.
Pogonophora Miers ex Benth. : With two species in tropical Africa and America
Trigonopleura Hook. f. : With three species in Malesia.

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The family of peraceae in APWebsite. (engl.)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Pera in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved September 27, 2018.

Web links

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[GRIN-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Pera in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved September 27, 2018.