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Rutaceae

  • 1. Michael J. Bayly, & Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle & Michael J. Bayly, & 37073 Göttingen, Germany & Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P. O. Box 37012, MRC 166, Washington, D. C. 20013 - 7012, U. S. A.
  • 2. Margaret M. Heslewood, & School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia & Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa 7701
  • 3. Milton Groppo, & National Herbarium of New South Wales, Australian Institute of Botanical Science, Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Mrs Macquaries Rd, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
  • 4. Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, CEP 14051 - 901, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 5. Paul I. Forster, & Bolus Herbarium, Botany Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X
  • 6. Jacquelyn A. Kallunki & Queensland Herbarium, Department of Environment and Science, Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong, Queensland 4066, Australia
  • 7. & Marco F. Duretto & The Steere Herbarium, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York 10458 - 5126, U. S. A.

Description

Key to subfamilies

The following key summarizes the subfamily classification and provides distinguishing morphological characters:

1. Gynoecium unicarpellate; androecium diplostemonous; leaves simple or pinnate; confined to the Americas…… ………………………………………… Amyridoideae

1. Gynoecium of more than one carpel; if gynoecium unicarpellate then androecium haplostemonous (Empleurum; S Africa), or leaves digitate (Vepris; Africa-Madagascar to India); androecium haplo-, diplo- or polystemonous; leaves simple, pinnate or digitate; nearly cosmopolitan……………………………………………2

2. Fruit syncarpous and baccate (either a typical berry or a hesperidium), sometimes with a woody or leathery pericarp; seeds lacking endosperm; androecium diplo- or polystemonous (sometimes haplostemonous in Glycosmis)………………………………… Aurantioideae

2. Fruit apocarpous or syncarpous, mostly capsular, follicular, drupaceous or samaroid, if baccate, then seeds with endosperm (Hortia) or androecium haplostemonous (Casimiroa); seeds with or without endosperm; androecium haplo- or diplostemonous………………………3

3. Perennial herbs or subshrubs with actinomorphic flowers (most taxa) or trees with loculicidal capsule with a central axis, winged seeds and 6–8 ovules per locule (Chloroxylon)…………………………………………4

3. Trees or shrubs with actinomorphic or zygomorphic flowers; rarely herbs with zygomorphic flowers (Dictamnus, Ertela) or with 1 or 2 ovules per locule (Boronia, Cyanothamnus); fruit not a loculicidal capsule with a central axis and winged seeds…………………………5

4. Leaves simple (rarely 3- to 5-parted/divided); flowers 5-merous; staminal filaments bearded within; ovules (1) 2–4(–8) per locule………………… Haplophylloideae 4. Leaves usually 3-foliate, pinnate or deeply and/or compoundly lobed, rarely simple (Thamnosma) and then flowers 4-merous; flowers 4(5)-merous; staminal filaments not bearded within; ovules 4 to several per locule…… ……………………………………………… Rutoideae

5. Secretory cavities in leaves absent or confined to leaf margin; staminal filaments often appendaged (Dictyoloma, Harrisonia, Sohnreyia, Spathelia)…………… ………………………………………… Cneoroideae

5. Secretory cavities usually present throughout leaves and other parts of the plant; staminal filaments not appendaged………………………………… Zanthoxyloideae

Notes

Published as part of Appelhans, Marc S., Bayly, Michael J., Heslewood, Margaret M., Groppo, Milton, Verboom, G. Anthony, Forster, Paul I., Kallunki, Jacquelyn A. & Duretto, Marco F., 2021, A new subfamily classification of the Citrus family (Rutaceae) based on six nuclear and plastid markers, pp. 1035-1061 in TAXON 70 (5) on page 1050, DOI: 10.1002/tax.12543, http://zenodo.org/record/14047401

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Sapindales
Family
Rutaceae
Taxon rank
family