The family Ochnaceae, or wild plane family, comprises mainly trees or shrubs, and more rarely herbaceous plants. Species of the Ochnaceae are found from subtropical to tropical regions. They are best represented in South America. The family has about 53 genera and 600 species. A family of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family is a domestic group of people, or a number of domestic groups, typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships including domestic partnership, adoption, surname and in some cases ownership (as was the case in the Roman... This article is about the plants used in cooking and medicine. ... Jump to: navigation, search In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. ... Subtropical (or semitropical) areas are those adjacent to the tropics, usually roughly defined as the ranges 23. ... The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...

Description

Members of the Ochnaceae all have evergreen petiolate leaves, which are sometimes leathery (found at the genus Ochna). The leaves are most often simple and alternate, but can be racemose, paniculate or more rarely pinnate. Pinnate leaves are typical of Godoya. A Silver Fir shoot showing three successive years of retained leaves In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant which retains its leaves year-round, with each leaf persisting for more than 12 months. ... A petiole (also called a pedicel) is the first abdominal segment of members of the Apocrita. ... In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a grouping in the classification of living organisms having one or more related and morphologically similar species. ... Genera Ochna is a genus comprising 86 species of evergreen trees, shrubs and shrublets belonging to the family Ochnaceae. ... A pinnate fern frond (Blechnum appendiculatum). ...

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Subdivisions

Subfamily Ochnoideae

This subfamily is characterized by the absence of endosperm in the seed. Endosperm is a triploid tissue (containing three sets of chromosomes) found in the seeds of flowering plants. ... A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. ...

Tribe Elvasieae

Elvasia (also Hostmannia, Trichovaselia or Vaselia)

Tribe Lophireae (sometimes stands alone as family Lophiraceae)

Lophira

Tribe Ochneae

Ochna (also Diporidium)

Tribe Ourateeae

Ouratea (also Kaieteuria)

Genera Ochna is a genus comprising 86 species of evergreen trees, shrubs and shrublets belonging to the family Ochnaceae. ...

Subfamily Luxemburgoideae

This subfamily is characterized by the presence of endosperm in the seed. Endosperm is a triploid tissue (containing three sets of chromosomes) found in the seeds of flowering plants. ...

Tribe Euthemideae

Euthemis

Gomphia (also Campylospermum, Idertia, Rhabdophyllum)

Tribe Luxernburgieae

Godoya

Luxemburgia (also Charidion, Hilairella, Epiblepharis, Periblepharis, Plectanthera)

Philacra

Sauvagesia (also Neckia, Leitgebia, Lavradia, Pentaspatella, Roraimanthus, Vausagesia ) - Sauvagesia. This genus is sometimes erected to tribe Sauvagesieae.

Schuurmansia

Wallacea

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Other genera

Adenarake

Blastemanthus

Brackenridgea (also Pleuroridgea)

Cespedesia (also Fournieria)

Fleurydora

Godoya

Indosinia (also Distephania or Indovethia)

Lophira

Krukoviella (also Planchonella)

Perissocarpa

Poecilandra

Rhytidanthera

Schuurmansia

Schuurmansiella

Sinia

Testulea

Tyleria (also Adenanthe)

Taxonomy note

This family includes the followings:

• Euthemidaceae Van Tiegh.
• Lophiraceae Endl.
• Luxemburgiaceae Van Tiegh.
• Sauvagesiaceae Dum.
• Simabaceae Horan. (p.p.)
• Wallaceaceae Van Tiegh.

This family excludes the followings: Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (24 June 1804 - 28 March 1849; botanical abbreviation Endl. ...

• Diegodendraceae
• Strasburgeriaceae