Family: Clusiaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Malpighiales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Clusiaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Trees or shrubs, terrestrial, epiphytic, or hemiepiphytic.
Main axis: Some genera with aerial roots.
Leaves: Leaves simple, opposite, one genus with alternate leaves; the lamina margins entire; secondary and tertiary leaf venation often fine, parallel, which is an important characteristic for recognizing many genera of this family.
Exudate: Exudate yellow, orange, or white, sometimes transparent and resinous.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence cauliflorous, raniflorous, terminal, or axillary, a cyme or rarely fascicle or solitary, the pedicels often with bracteoles.
Flowers: Flowers bisexual or unisexual; sepals 2-14; petals 2-14, free or connate at the base, contorted or imbricate; stamens 4 to numerous, grouped in fasciles or whorls or fused into a tube; staminodia similar to stamens or fused into ring; ovary superior, carpels 2-15, the style 1, equal to number of carpels, or reduced to absent.
Fruit: Fruit a drupe, berry, or capsule.
Seeds: Seeds one to many per carpel, often arillate, sometimes winged.