KIGGELARIACEAE

• 28 genera, 144 species; pantropical, including Queensland of Australia.

• Trees or shrubs, sometimes thorny, often with cyanogenic glycosides.

• Leaves alternate, simple, entire or toothed (but teeth not of salicoid type), pinnately veined or 3-veined from the base. Stipules present or absent.

• Flowers unisexual or bisexual.

• Perianth acyclic (sepals and petals spirally arranged and ±indistinguishable) to cyclic, the petals then sometimes more numerous than the sepals. Petals sometimes with an adnate adaxial scale (Erythrospermeae, Kiggelarieae).

KIGGELARIACEAE --- cont.

• Stamens 5-numerous, anthers often linear, sometimes dehiscing poricidally, initiation (where studied) centripital or simultaneous.

• Ovary superior, unilocular with parietal placentae.

• Fruit a berry, indehiscent berry (rarely woody), or capsule.

TRIBES OF KIGGELARIACEAE

• Kiggelarieae (=Pangieae): 11 genera, SE Mexico, Queensland, tropical Asia, and South Africa.

• Oncobeae (including Lindackerieae): 12 genera, tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical America.

• Erythrospermeae: 5 genera, tropical Africa and Asia

Oncobeae

(Warburg, 1893)

Kiggelarieae

Oncobeae

Caloncoba

(Gilg, 1925)

SELECTED LITERATURE

• Bernhard, A. and P.K. Endress. 1999. Androecial development and systematics in Flacourtiaceae s.l. Pl. Syst. Evol. 215:141-155.

• Chase, M.W. et al. [in press.] When in doubt, put it in Flacourtiaceae: a molecular phylogenetic analysis based on plastid rbcL DNA sequences. Kew Bulletin.

• Gavrilova, O.A. 1998. Palynomorphology of the family Kiggelariaceae. Bot. Zhurn. 83:20-27. [in Russian]

• Gilg, E. 1925. Flacourtiaceae. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.

• Spencer, K.C. and D.S. Seigler. 1985. Cyanogenic glycosides and the systematics of the Flacourtiaceae. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 13:421-431.

• von Warburg, O. 1893. Flacourtiaceae. Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Leipzig: Engelmann.