Flacourtiaceae woody plants, leaf, leaves alternate, rarely opposite or whorled (China no); stipules small. Flowers small, actinomorphic, unisexual or bisexual, usually dioecious or hybrid strains; inflorescence racemose corymbs, panicles, clusters of inflorescence, etc., usually 2 to 7 calyx, petals deposit or absent; Tori usually with glands, stamens usually numerous, scarce number of anthers 2-celled, ovary superior, upper half, rarely inferior, 1 to 2 rooms, parietal placentation, ovules anatropous. The fruit is a capsule, berry, drupe (China without). Seed aril, a few winged, endosperm, cotyledon large. Slightly fragrant flowers, the nectary, is insect-pollinated plants, pregnancy rate, the results are more. Pollen roughly nearly spherical, nearly prolate to prolate. Size (12 ~ 36.6) × (8 ~ 40) microns. With 2 to 3 or 3 colporate intended colporate, bore horizontal length, contour explicitly or implicitly, how thick the outer to the inner wall. Finely reticulate surface. Chromosome number x = 10,11,12.
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Flacourtiaceae versatile plants, medicinal plants Hydnocarpus genus, genus horse egg fruit, oak genus, etc., several Hydnocarpus and horse egg fruit Hydnocarpus oleic acid (Chaulmoogric acid, C18H32O2) and sub-oleic Hydnocarpus (Hydnocarpic acid, C16H28O2) for the treatment of leprosy; Hill peel the genus Jatropha oil yield 32.82%, 28.43% oil content seeds, edible oils and treated for light industrial use; Sri Lanka day feeding wood (female students) is tall trees, fine-grained, solid material for a variety of timber, is also a fine tropical tree species; snuffbox trees, large spiny wooden fruit edible fruit; Philippine oak, white background red wood sub endangered; horse egg fruit, Hainan Hydnocarpus hairless day material wood as national key protected plants, white-backed red sub-wood, pearl thorn Hiiragi, Hainan day feeding wood, Guangxi day feeding wood, Quang Nam-day feeding wood, were pulse-day feeding wood, short calyx day feeding wood, wide petal day feeding wood, wood materials Brachystachyum day, willow day feeding wood, mountain Calligonum, goats hornbeam, Yunnan, Guizhou, goat horn tree, flower thinning oak, such as China, Yunnan blackmailed crisp endemic.
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