Sarkolenic ( lat . Sarcolaenaceae ) - a family of flowering plants of the order malvotsvetnye . Endemics of Madagascar . These are mostly evergreen trees and shrubs . The family is represented by 40 species in 10 genera. Recent DNA studies have shown that sarkolenic are a related taxon to the dipterocarp family.
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 Leptolaena multiflora | |||||||||||||||||
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Sarcolaenaceae Caruel (1881), nom. cons. | |||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy
In the sarkolenic family, the following genera are distinguished:
- Eremolaena
- Leptolaena
- Mediusella
- Pentachlaena
- Perrierodendron
- Rhodolaena
- Sarcolaena - Sarkolen
- Schizolaena
- Xerochlamys
- Xyloolaena
Links
- M. Ducousso, G. Béna, C. Bourgeois, B. Buyck, G. Eyssartier, M. Vincelette, R. Rabevohitra, L. Randrihasipara, B. Dreyfus & Y. Prin. The last common ancestor of the Sarcolaenaceae and Asian dipterocarp trees was ectomycorrhizal before the India-Madagascar separation, about 88 million years ago (Eng.) // Molecular Ecology : journal. - 2004. - Vol. 13 , no. 1 . - P. 231–236 . - DOI : 10.1046 / j.1365-294X.2003.02032.x . - PMID 14653803 .
- Images of Sarcolaenaceae in Madagascar (Missouri Botanic Garden)
- Sarcolaenaceae in L. Watson and MJ Dallwitz (1992 onwards). The families of flowering plants: descriptions, identifications, information retrieval. http://delta-intkey.com
Notes
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .