Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Family
Chapter:
664.41.00
664.41.00 Sladeniaceae
Botany: 2 genera, 3 species; trees; subtropical to tropical; East Africa (Ficalhoa), Burma, Yunnan and Thailand (Sladenia); cymose inflorescences.
Taxonomy
Sladenia has been placed in Theaceae, Actinidiaceae, Dilleniaceae or Ternstroemiaceae. Ficalhoa and possibly Pentaphylax belong to Sladeniaceae. In the Apg3 classification Sladeniaceae is a Family in the Ericales, closely related to Pentaphylacaceae.