Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-644.17.00
Erythroxylaceae
English: mangrove.
German: Rotholzgewächse.
Use: fuel, building, smoking food.
Botany: 4 genera; 149 species; mangrove trees; tropical; opposite leaves; flowers with a nectary disc; viviparous.
Content: tropane pyrollidin alkaloids.
DD: Oxygen, Natrium, Magnesium, Muriaticum, Iodum.
Taxonomy
Erythroxylaceae is an independent Family in the Apg3 classification.
In the Plant theory Erythroxylaceae is fused with in Rhizophoraceae.
Included Families
Erythroxylaceae: Coca family; 4 genera; ± 240 species.
Ctenolophonaceae: 1 genus, Ctenolophon; 4 species; West Africa and Malaysia.
Genera: 4: Aneulophus, Erythroxylum, Nectaropetalum, Pinacopodium.
Rotholzgewächse (Erythroxylaceae)
Taxonomy: Erythroxylaceae is an independent Family in the Apg3 classification.
In the Plant theory Erythroxylaceae is fused with in Rhizophoraceae.