Names: Sterculoideae.
Botany: 12 genera, 430 species; pantropical; flowers unisexual; petals lost; carpels separating; androgynophore.
DD:
Lithium, Bromine.
TaxonomyIn
Apg3 classification Sterculiaceae is treated as a subfamily of Malvaceae, Sterculioideae.
Sterculiaceae was polyphyletic. Many genera like Abroma and Theobroma, the chocolate, have been transferred to Byttnerioideae, another subfamily in Malvaceae.
In the
Plant theory Sterculiaceae is treated as a family and placed in
Subphase 1. There are marked aspects of
Lithium.
Cola is the best known remedy of
Sterculiaceae.