The rosidfamilyPutranjivaceae is composed of 210 species of evergreen tropical trees distributed into 3 genera. Members of this family have 2-ranked coriaceous leaves, which, if fresh, typically have a radish-like or peppery taste. The flowers are fasciculate and usually small, and the fruits of these species are a single-seeded drupe crown by the persistent stigmas. Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Malpighiales are a large order of flowering plants, included in the rosid group of dicotyledons. ... This article is about the domestic group. ... In biology, a species is a kind of organism. ... 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. ... See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... The peach is a typical drupe (stone fruit) In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. ... The word stigma (plural stigmata) has more than one possible meaning: a mark such as that made with a branding iron in botany, stigma can mean a part of the female part of a flower; that part of a pistil which has no epidermis, and is fitted to receive the...
This family has its origin in Africa and Malaysia. The Federation of Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. ...
Genera
Drypetes, which forms in itself the tribus Drypeteae.
This family was formerly a group of the larger family of Euphorbiaceae. Like the Phyllanthaceae, the Putranjivaceae was separated from it as a result of botanical analyses. Genera See text Ref: Euphorbiaceae in The Families of Flowering Plants, as of 2002-07-13 The Spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) is a large family of flowering plants with 280 genera and around 6000 species. ... Genera see text The family Phyllanthaceae comprises 1725 species of trees, shrubs and herbs distributed in all tropical regions of the world. ...
Putranjivaceae are trees to shrubs that may be recognised by their 2-ranked often rather coriaceous leaves that are asymmetrical at the base and dry a greyish color; they frequently taste peppery or like an inferior radish when fresh, although the taste may take a little time to develop (mustard oils!).
Putranjivaceae have usually been included in Euphorbiaceae (as by Webster 1994, in Phyllanthoideae), but can be distinguished i.a.
Work on the DELTA Euphorbiaceae key started in 2002 as a one-year undergraduate project.
The generic descriptions in Genera Euphorbiacearum, comprising Centroplacaceae, Euphorbiaceae senu stricto, Pandaceae, Phyllanthaceae, Picrodendraceae, and Putranjivaceae, were digitised and further standardised.
Aimeé Galster also illustrated each character state where possible.
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