Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-655.40.00
Rutaceae
English: Citrus family; Lemon family.
Genera: 150 genera, 1600 species.
Content: aromatic, fresh oils!; bitter triterpenoids; flavonoiden, phenoles; ascorbic acid, vitamin C.
DD: Oxygen; Sulphur; Silver series; Chenopodiaceae Sulphur; Vitamin C is required for the incorporation of Sulphur in the protein collagen.
Region: cosmopolitan.
Habitat: lowlands.
Use: fruits!!; medicinal; oils; ornamental, hedges; spice, perfumes; wood for timber.
Introduction
Rutaceae produce 25% of all fruits in the wolrd.
Botany
Woody shrubs, trees, lianas.
Stem:: spines.
Leaves: alternate, spiral; compound pinnate, unifoliate; exstipulate; with glandular, pellucid dots, secretory cavities!; petiole winged, rachis winged!.
Inflorescence: determinate, some indetreminate.
Flowers: 5 merous, radial; sepals 5, small; petals 5, big,white; stamens 5, free, mature before female parts; carpels 4 or 5, united; nectar disk big, around gynoecium.
Pollination: by insects.
DD Burseraceae: have resin, lack pellucid dots.
DD Meliaceae: have stamens united.
DD: Simaroubaceae: lack pellucid dots; 1 ovule.
Taxonomy
Rutaceae is one of the main Families in the Sapindales in the Apg3 classification.
In the Plant theory Rutaceae is placed in Subphase 1.