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CLUSIACEAE
The pattern of
pollen types in
angiosperms
Furness & Rudall, 2004
Successive sporogenesis
Simultaneous sporogenesis
Furness & Rudall, 2004
Furness & Rudall, 2004
eurosids I
rosids
magnoliids
monocots
core eudicots
eudicots
CLUSIACEAE (Clusioideae: MALPIGHIALES, EUROSID I)
NUMBERS: 50 Genera, 1200 species
GEOGRAPHY: pantropical
ECOLOGY: small trees and stranglers of wet to rain forests mostly at middle to upper
altitudes
ROSID CHARACTERS: petals separate, androecium diplostemonous and/or not fused to
petals
MALPIGHIALES: APG SAYS: leaf margin toothed [teeth with a single vein
running into a congested ± deciduous apex]. SEEMS WORTHLESS. The
butterfly Cymothoë has hosts widely scattered in this order alone (Ackery
1988).
CLUSIACEAE,
Malpighiales
Cymothoë likes Malpighiales, its allies are
all Rosid specialists and mostly eurosids I
specialists.
CLUSIACEAE - treelets and stranglers
Clusiaceae in a Golfito profile:
2, 5, 20, 24
CHARACTERS DIAGNOSTIC OF
FAMILY:
Habit woody
Latex present - white or yellow - borne
in latificers between veins of leaves
Leaves opposite, secondary veins often
parallel and close set
Flowers imperfect (plants often
dioecious, large and showy)
Androecium of many showy stamens
Gynoecium - styles variously connate
Fruit dehiscent or not, with seeds arillate
Clusia as a treelet (in montane
rain forest near treeline dwarf or elfin forest
Clusia as a strangler
Clusia - dioecious, offers resin rewards for stingless bees.
Trigona - a meliponine bee
Clusia, bird-dispersed with arils as attractants.
Garcinia - largely Old World, including the mangosteen
Symphonia - the peppermint candy flower
blue honeycreeper
black-faced dacnis