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Canellaceae

Canellaceae
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Thomas K. Wilson in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
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].

The family was placed in Hypericales by J. K. Small (1933); the combination of oil cells in most of the tissue, pollen with a single distal furrow (occasionally with 3-radiate surficial furrow), very long vessels, and scalariform vessel perforation plates with many bars suggests Magnoliales or Annonales (A. Cronquist 1981; R. M. T. Dahlgren 1980; H. Melchoir and W. Schultze-Motel 1959; R. F. Thorne 1976; T. K. Wilson 1960; C. E. Wood Jr. 1958). Further support of this placement comes from leaf architecture studies by L. J. Hickey (1971) and P-type plastids in sieve elements (H. -D. Behnke 1988).

Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Canella alba
Media resource of Canella alba
Canella winterana
Media resource of Canella winterana
Capsicodendron pimenteira
Media resource of Capsicodendron pimenteira
Cinnamodendron axillare
Media resource of Cinnamodendron axillare
Cinnamodendron corticosum
Media resource of Cinnamodendron corticosum
Cinnamodendron dinisii
Media resource of Cinnamodendron dinisii
Cinnamodendron ekmanii
Media resource of Cinnamodendron ekmanii
Cinnamodendron tenuifolium
Media resource of Cinnamodendron tenuifolium
Cinnamodendron venezuelense
Media
not available
Cinnamosma fragrans
Media resource of Cinnamosma fragrans
Cinnamosma madagascariensis
Media resource of Cinnamosma madagascariensis
Pleodendron costaricense
Media resource of Pleodendron costaricense
Pleodendron ekmanii
Media
not available
Pleodendron macranthum
Media
not available
Warburgia elongata
Media
not available
Warburgia salutaris
Media resource of Warburgia salutaris
Warburgia stuhlmannii
Media
not available
Warburgia ugandensis
Media resource of Warburgia ugandensis
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