Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Family
Chapter:
3-655.40.00
Rutaceae
English: Citrus family; Lemon family.
Botany: 150 genera, 1600 species; secretory cavities; leaves with dots.
Content: 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.
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.