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Lecythidaceae - Brazil-nut family
Barringtoniaceae
Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York
Fernandes, A. (1978) Barringtoniaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4
Mori, S. A. & Prance, G. T. (2006 onwards) The Lecythidaceae Pages (http://sweetgum.nybg.org/lp/index.html). The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York.
Walters, S.M. et al. (eds) (2000) The European Garden Flora. Vol. VI. Dicotyledons (Part IV). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Description of the family
Trees or shrubs. Stipules 0 or caducous. Leaves simple, alternate or clustered at branch apices. Flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic, solitary or in spikes, clusters or racemes. Sepals usually 4-6. Petals usually 4-6, ± free. Stamens many in several whorls, often arranged on one side of the flower. Ovary inferior, 2-6-locular. Fruit a berry or woody capsule, indehiscent or dehiscent by a lid (circumscissile). Worldwide: 20 genera and 285 species in the tropics, mainly South American rain forests; 2 species occurring naturally in the Flora Zambesiaca region, but not in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated genus and 1 cultivated taxon. |
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lecythidaceae
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