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(Last Modified On 7/1/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/1/2013)
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Family
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STAPHYLEACEAE
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Contributor
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THOMAS B. CROAT
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate, petiolate; blades simple or pinnately compound; leaflets serrate; venation pinnate; stipules and stipels usually present, sometimes reduced to glands or absent. Inflorescences terminal or in the axils of the upper leaves, paniculate or thyrsiform. Flowers complete, bisexual and actinomorphic; sepals 5, free, unequal, imbricate; petals 5, free, un- equal, imbricate in bud, inserted on or below a hypogynous crenate or lobed disc; stamens 5, arising between the lobes of the disc, alternate with the petals, the filaments complanate, the anthers 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary superior, entire or lobed or 3-parted, 3-locular, the carpels free or united, sessile, the placentation axile, the ovules few to many, anatropous, in 1 or 2 series on the ventral suture, the styles 3, free or united, the stigmas capitate. Fruit a berry (Panama) or a membranous inflated capsule dehiscing apically; seeds with a straight embryo and fleshy endosperm.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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The Staphyleaceae includes 5-7 genera and about 60 species, mostly from North America.
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Note
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The genus Staphylea is principally temperate but reaches Mex- ico. Staphylea and Turpinia have species occurring in both Asia and the Americas. The genus Hertia occurs in the West Indies and in South America. The remaining genera are of the Old World.
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Reference
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Spongberg, S. 1971. Staphyleaceae in the Southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 52: 196-203.
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