Botanical Family · Dilleniales

Dilleniaceae

Dillenia Family

4 speciesOrder Dilleniales4+ well-known plants

The Dilleniaceae family (Dillenia Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Dilleniales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 4 species across 2 genera. Its members are predominantly trees. Well-represented genera include Dillenia and Tetracera. Several members are valued in traditional medicine. Familiar examples include Racemed fish-bone Tree, Elephant Apple and Dog Teak.

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Representative specimen · Dilleniaceae

Key pattern

Alternate, often stiff and boldly ribbed leaves with numerous straight parallel side veins running to the margin, on trees and climbers; regular flowers show numerous separate stamens and carpels around a rugged, often persistent fleshy calyx that continues to enclose the ripening fruit.

The stiff, sandpaper-textured leaves with sharply parallel ribbing were historically used, quite literally, to sand and polish wood and metal in parts of South and Southeast Asia.

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Notable members

Racemed Fish-Bone TreeDillenia bracteataElephant Apple, Chulta, Dellenia, Hondapara Tree, Ma-Tad (Mal.)Dillenia indicaDog TeakDillenia pentagynaSandpaper VineTetracera indica

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