Flacourtiaceae
Flacourtia Family
The Flacourtiaceae family (Flacourtia Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Malpighiales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 20 species across 8 genera. Its members are predominantly trees. Well-represented genera include Casearia, Flacourtia and Hydnocarpus. Familiar examples include Wild Cowrie Fruit, Chilla and Kei-apple.
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Alternate, toothed simple leaves on trees and shrubs frequently armed with straight spines on the trunk or branches; small flowers lack showy petals, relying on numerous stamens instead, and ripen into a berry.
A taxonomically miscellaneous family for otherwise hard-to-place flowering trees — many bear the tart, cherry-like fruit of Flacourtia used in preserves and pickles.
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Typical leaf characters
Characters typical of the family — individual species can vary.
Typical flower & fruit
- Flower symmetryActinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- InflorescenceCyme
- FruitBerry
Typical of the family — flowering plants only; species can vary.
Notable members
All 20 species in FLACOURTIACEAE
- Wild Cowrie FruitCasearia championii
- ChillaCasearia graveolens
- Kei-AppleDovyalis caffra
- Governer's Plum, Madagascar Plum, Batoko PalmFlacourtia indica
- Lovi-LoviFlacourtia inermis
- Coffee PlumFlacourtia jangomas
- Mountain Sweet ThornFlacourtia montana
- Alpine AlmondHydnocarpus alpina
- Chaulmoogra-TreeHydnocarpus anthelminthicus
- Fish Poison Tree, Marothi TreeHydnocarpus laurifolia
- ChaulmugraHydnocarpus pentandrus
- Fried-Egg FlowerOncoba spinosa
- The 'Potato' Plum Of MysoreScolopia crenata
- Longleaf LogwoodXylosma longifolium
- Casearia elliptica
- Casearia ovata
- Casearia rubescens
- Casearia wynadensis
- Flacourtia indica var. innocua
- Homalium zeylanicum
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