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(Last Modified On 3/14/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/14/2013)
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Family
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COCHLOSPERMACEAE
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Contributor
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ANDIRE ROBYNS
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Description
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Herbs, rhizomatous, or shrubs, or small trees, with colored sap. Leaves alter- nate, stipulate, the blade palmatilobed or compound-digitate, the margins entire to serrate. Inflorescences racemose or paniculate, the flowers usually appearing before the leaves. Flowers X, actinomorphic, usually large and showy; sepals 4-5, imbricate, distinct, caducous or long-persistent; petals 4-5, imbricate or convolute, distinct, caducous; stamens so, the filaments distinct, equal in length or unequal, the anthers basi- or dorsifixed, linear, 2-thecate, apically poricidal or dehiscing by apical, short slits; pollen grains usually 3-colporate; gynoecium with 3-5 syncarpous carpels; ovary superior, 1-locular, or the placentae intruding and falsely or at the base only 3-5-locular, the placentation accordingly parietal or axile, the ovules so, anatropous; style 1, the stigma small, denticulate or lobulate. Fruits capsular, loculicidal, 3-5-valvate, the endocarp thick and separating from the thin endocarp; seeds co, straight or reniform, glabrous or long-lanate; albumen copious and oily; embryo curved; cotyledons large and foliaceous.
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Habit
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Herbs
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Distribution
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A small, tropical family of three genera, with only the following genus re- ported from Panama
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