Overview
Comprehensive Description
Description
Trees or shrubs. Stipules 0. Leaves alternate, simple, ± coriaceous, evergreen, entire (in ours). Inflorescences cymose or paniculate. Flowers actinomorphic. Sepals 4-6, free or connate. Petals 4-6. Ovary superior, 1-locular with 2 carpels (in ours). Fruit a capsule. Seeds covered in a sticky resin (in ours).
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Barcode
Locations of barcode samples
Collection Sites: world map showing specimen collection locations for Pittosporaceae
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Statistics of barcoding coverage
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
| Specimen Records: | 16 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 30 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 21 |
| Public Records: | 0 |
| Species: | 8 |
| Species With Barcodes: | 6 |
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Pittosporaceae
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Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants. The family includes approximately 200 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9-10 genera. The species of Pittosporaceae range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropic, Indomalaya, Oceania, and Australasia ecozones.
Genera
- Auranticarpa L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford
- Bentleya
- Billardiera Bursaria Cav.
- Cheiranthera A.Cunn. ex Brongn.
- HymenosporumR.Br. ex F.Muell. (H. flavum being the sole species)
- Marianthus
- Pittosporum A.Cunn. ex Putt. (including Citriobatus)
- Pronaya
- Rhytidosporum
- Sollya
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