WorldFloraDB - Canellaceae

Characteristics

Trees [or prostrate shrubs], evergreen, aromatic. Pith homogeneous. Leaves alternate, simple, without stipules; petiole short. Leaf blade pinnately veined, unlobed, margins entire; pellucid dots (oil cells in tissue of leaf) conspicuous or inconspicuous. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, cymes [racemes or solitary flowers], pedunculate; bracts present or absent. Flowers bisexual; perianth hypogynous, segments imbricate; sepals persistent, 3; petals 5[-12] in 1[-4] whorl(s); stamens [7-]10[-12], hypogynous, monadelphous; filaments connate, forming tube around pistil; anthers extrorse, longitudinally dehiscent; pistil 1, superior, 2-6-carpellate; ovary 1-locular; placentation parietal, placentas 2[-6]; ovules 2-3 per placenta; style 1, generally short; stigma 1, usually 2-6-lobed. Fruits berries. Seeds 2 or more, not arillate; endosperm oily [ruminate].

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Aromatic glabrous trees. Leaves simple, gland-dotted, alternate, without stipules. Inflorescences axillary or axillary and terminal, cymose; bracts three, persistent. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 4–5, free, rather thick, imbricate. Petals 4–12, free or connate, thin, imbricate or wanting. Stamens hypogynous, up to 20; filaments united into a tube; anthers extrorse, adnate to the upper part of the tube. Ovary superior, 1–locular; ovules 2–many, subanatropous; placentation parietal, placentae 2–5. Style thick and short; stigmas 2–5. Fruit a berry. Seeds 2–many, shining, with oily and fleshy endosperm

Stamens hypogynous, 6–12; filaments united into a tube; anthers extrorse, adnate to the upper part of the tube, bilobed, each lobe composed of two microsporangia

Petals 5–12, free or united into a tube at the base, rather thick, in 1 or 2 whorls

Ovary superior, unilocular; ovules 2-many on 2–6 parietal placentas, subanatropous

Leaves simple, alternate, gland-dotted, without stipules

Inflorescences axillary or axillary and terminal, cymose

Seeds 2-many, shining with oily fleshy endosperm

Style short and thick; stigmas 2–6

Flowers regular, hermaphrodite

Aromatic glabrous trees

Sepals 3, persistent

Fruit a berry

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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77126585-1
WFO ID	wfo-7000000108
COL ID	7NS
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	597646
Wikipedia (EN)	Link
Wikipedia (FR)	Link

Synonyms

Canellaceae

Lower taxons

Cinnamodendron Pleodendron Warburgia Canella Cinnamosma

WorldFloraDB 2024

Canellaceae Mart.

Wild-cinnamon family (en), Canellacées (fr)

Family

Angiosperms > Canellales