Botanical Family · Malpighiales
Dichapetalaceae
Dichapetalum Family
1 speciesOrder Malpighiales1+ well-known plants
The Dichapetalaceae family (Dichapetalum Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Malpighiales. It is represented by a single species in the SASYA catalogue. That species is a shrub.
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Simple, alternate leaves on shrubs and lianas with small paired stipules; small flowers cluster in the leaf axils and ripen into a fuzzy, often lobed drupe.
Several species accumulate fluoroacetate, a potent natural toxin, in their leaves and seeds — one of the few plant families known to biosynthesise organofluorine poisons at all.
Notable members
All 1 species in DICHAPETALACEAE
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