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Bombacaceae - Baobab family
Literature
Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York
Wild, H. (1961) Bombacaceae FZ 1(2)
Description of the family
The following description refers to Adansonia only. Tree, with an extraordinary swollen trunk. Stipules present, deciduous. Leaves alternate, simple (in young trees) or digitate (in older trees). Flowers large and showy, pendulous, solitary in leaf axils, bisexual, actinomorphic. Pedicels with 2 bracteoles. Calyx deeply 5-lobed (in ours), often with an epicalyx. Petals 5, free. Stamens numerous, united into a tube below (in ours); anthers 1-thecous. Ovary superior, 5-10-locular (in ours). Fruit woody, indehiscent (in ours). Worldwide: 26 genera and 250 species, tropical, especially America. |
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Links to genera: (2)
| Genus | Content |
| Adansonia L. | Description |
| Bombax L. | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Bombacaceae:
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for BombacaceaeGoogle: Web - Images - Scholar
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