Family: Elaeocarpaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Oxalidales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Elaeocarpaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Shrubs or mostly trees in the study region.
Main axis: Trunks often with thin, flying buttresses.
Leaves: Leaves simple, typically alternate but sometimes subopposite, especially at the branch apex; petioles usually thickened at both ends, usually flexed at the apex.
Stipules: Stipules persistent or caducous, sometimes large.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence a raceme, panicle, or cyme, usually axillary or appearing ramiflorous.
Flowers: Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic; sepals 3-9, free or fused at base, valvate; petals 3-5, free, or caducous to absent; stamens numerous, inserted on disk; ovary superior, 1-several locular, the style 1, the placentation axile.
Fruit: Fruit a loculicidal capsule, sometimes armed with soft to indurate spines.
Seeds: Seeds usually 1 per fruit, sometimes up to 3, often arillate.