Tapisciaceae
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The Tapisciaceae are a small family of plants within the small order of the Huerteales . In this family there are only two genera with only five to six species .
Occurrence
The family owns a disjoint area : the home of the Tapiscia species is China, the Huertea species are native to the Caribbean islands and northern South America.
description
They are deciduous trees . The alternate and spirally arranged leaves are stalked and unpaired pinnate with five to seven leaflets or three-fingered. The leaflets have a serrated to notched edge. Stipules are mostly present.
They are Androdiozian , that means there are male and hermaphrodite plants in one species. The flowers are in axillary, paniculate inflorescences . The small, radially symmetrical and five-fold flowers have a double perianth and are male or hermaphrodite. The flower cup (hypanthium) is short. The five sepals are usually only briefly fused with tubes. The five free petals are yellow or white. There is only the outer circle with five free, fertile stamens each. The pollen is colpat. The disc is small or absent. Two carpels are a syncarp, Upper permanent ovary grown with only one ovule . There are two spreading styluses or a two-lobed stylus.
There are stone fruits or berries formed with a fleshy or leathery pericarp.
Systematics
The two genera were formerly in the subfamily Tapiscioideae of the family of the Staphyleaceae (DC.) Lindl. or the family of the Tapisciaceae assigned to the order of the Sapindales . In the family of the Tapisciaceae there are only two genera with only five to six species:
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Huertea Ruiz & Pav .: With discus. The home is the Caribbean islands and northern South America. With about four types:
- Huertea cubensis Griseb.
- Huertea glandulosa Ruiz & Pav.
- Huertea granadina Cuatrec.
- Huertea putumayensis Cuatrec.
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Tapiscia olive. : Without a discus. The stone fruit-like berries need at least eight months to ripen. The deposits are only in China. With one or two types:
- Tapiscia sinensis Oliver : This species thrives at altitudes between 500 and 2200 meters in Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Zhejiang.
- Tapiscia yunnanensis W.C.Cheng & CDChu : This species thrives at altitudes between 1500 and 2300 meters in Hubei, Sichuan and Yunnan.
A synonym for Tapisciaceae Takht. is Huerteaceae Doweld .
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- The family of tapisciaceae in APWebsite. (engl.)
- De-Zhu Li, Cai Jie & Jun Wen: Tapisciaceae in the Flora of China , Volume 11, p. 496: Online. (engl.)
- Entry at GRIN.
