Elaeocarpaceae

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Oxalidales

Familia: Elaeocarpaceae
Genera: Aceratium – Aristotelia – Crinodendron – Dubouzetia – Elaeocarpus – Peripentadenia – Platytheca – Sericolea – Sloanea – Tetratheca – Tremandra – Vallea

Name

Elaeocarpaceae, Juss. ex DC., 1816
References
Primary references

Jussieu, A.L. de, 1816. Essai sur les Propriétés Médicales des Plantes 87.

Additional references

Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards) Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, Sept. 2012. [1]
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Vascular Plant Families and Genera[2]
Crayn, D.M., Rossetto, M., & Maynard, D.J. (2006) Molecular phylogeny and dating reveals an Oligo-Miocene radiation of dry-adapted shrubs (former Tremandraceae) from rainforest tree progenitors (Elaeocarpaceae) in Australia. American Journal of Botany, 93: 1328–1342.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Elaeocarpaceae in World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 10. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2020. Elaeocarpaceae in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 10. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2020. Elaeocarpaceae. Published online. Accessed: Apr 10 2020.
Tropicos.org 2020. Elaeocarpaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2020 Apr 10.

Vernacular names
català: Eleocarpàcies
čeština: Mastnoplodovité
فارسی: زیتون‌وشان
日本語: ホルトノキ科
한국어: 담팔수과
lietuvių: Alyvūniniai
മലയാളം: ഇലിയോകാർപ്പേസീ
polski: Eleokarpowate
русский: Элеокарповые
ไทย: วงศ์มุ่นดอย
Tiếng Việt: Họ Côm
中文: 杜英科

Elaeaocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family contains approximately 615 species of trees and shrubs in 12 genera.[3][4] The largest genera are Elaeocarpus, with about 350 species, and Sloanea, with about 120.[5][6]

The species of Elaeocarpaceae are mostly tropical and subtropical, with a few temperate-zone species. Most species are evergreen. They are found in Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, and South America.[5][6]

Plants in this family have simple leaves, usually arranged alternately, sometimes in opposite pairs or whorled often clustered at the ends of the branches, usually with a toothed edge but sometimes reduced to scales. The flowers are arranged in leaf axils, singly or in groups and are radially symmetrical. The flowers usually have both male and female organs, four or five sepals and four or five petals. In some genera there are twice as many stamens as petals and in others there may be many stamens. In most species the anther is much longer than the filament of the stamen. The fruit is a capsule, a drupe or a berry.[7]

A phylogeny of the family, based on DNA sequences was published in 2006.[8]
Genera

Twelve genera of Elaeocarpaceae are accepted by Plants of the World Online as at August 2021:[9]

Aceratium DC.
Aristotelia L'Hér.
Crinodendron Molina
Dubouzetia Pancher ex Brongn. & Gris
Elaeocarpus Burm. ex L.
Peripentadenia L.S.Sm.
Platytheca Steetz
Sericolea Schltr.
Sloanea L.
Tetratheca Sm.
Tremandra R.Br. ex DC.
Vallea Mutis ex L.f.

References

Stevens, Peter F. "Elaeocarpaceae". APWeb. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III" (PDF). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x. Retrieved 2013-07-06.
"Elaeocarpaceae" In: Klaus Kubitzki (ed.). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol. VI. Springer-Verlag: Berlin;Heidelberg, Germany. (2004). ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8
Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1.
"Elaeocarpus". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
"Sloanea". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
Harden, Gwen J. "Family Elaeocarpaceae". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
Darren M. Crayn, Maurizio Rossetto, and David J. Maynard. 2006. "Molecular phylogeny and dating reveals an Oligo-Miocene radiation of dry-adapted shrubs (former Tremandraceae) from rainforest tree progenitors (Elaeocarpaceae) in Australia". American Journal of Botany 93(9):1328-1342.
"Elaeocarpaceae". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 August 2021.