Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-644.16.00
Cunoniaceae
Clades: Celastrales; Fabidae; Fabanae; Angiospermae; Plants.
Region: Southern Hemisphere; tropical and wet temperate regions; Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Maleisia, South Pacific, Madagascar; disjunct ranges.
Botany: 27 genera, 330 species; woody trees, shrubs; evergreen; leaves opposite or whorled, simple or compound pinnate or palmate, entire or toothed margin, often conspicuous stipules, interpetiolar or intrapetiolar; flowers have four or five sepals and petals; fruit a woody capsule or a follicle containing several small seeds.
Taxonomy
Cunoniaceae is a Family in Celastrales.
Tribes: Cunonieae, Codieae, Geissoieae, Caldcluvieae, Schizomerieae, Spiraeanthemeae.
Genera: Ackama, Acrophyllum, Aistopetalum, Anodopetalum, Bauera, Caldcluvia, Callicoma, Ceratopetalum, Codia, Cunonia, Davidsonia, Eucryphia, Geissois, Gillbeea, Hooglandia, Karrabina, Lamanonia, Opocunonia, Pancheria, Platylophus, Pseudoweinmannia, Pullea, Schizomeria, Spiraeanthemum, Spiraeopsis, Vesselowskya, Weinmannia.
Tribes and genera
Tribe Spiraeanthemeae: Spiraeanthemum.
Tribe Schizomerieae: Anodopetalum; Ceratopetalum; Schizomeria; Platylophus.
Tribe Geissoieae: Geissois; Karrabina; Lamanonia; Pseudoweinmannia.
Tribe Caldcluvieae: Ackama; Caldcluvia; Opocunonia; Spiraeopsis.
Tribe Codieae: Callicoma; Codia; Pullea.
Tribe Cunonieae: Cunonia; Pancheria; Vesselowskya; Weinmannia.
Unplaced: Acrophyllum; Aistopetalum; Bauera; Davidsonia; Eucryphia; Hooglandia; Gillbeea.
Taxonomy
In Stebbins classification Eucryphia was placed in its own family Eucryphiaceae as the only genus, in the order Rosales, together with Cunoniaceae.