MALPIGHIACEAE family

 MALPIGHIACEAE family is home to some very beautiful shrubs, trees and vines native to the tropics and subtropics. It is a large family with about 73 genera and over 1300 species. Some characteristics that can help identify its members are listed as follows:

🌷 Leaves are simple, opposite or arranged in whorls and have stipules. They frequently have paired glands on the petiole or base of the blade

🌷 Flowers are bisexual, usually radially symmetrical, with pentamerous perianth of well differentiated 5 sepals and petals. The petals are generally yellow or pink, claw shaped with their margins ciliate, toothed, or fringed. The sepals have basal glands that secrete sugar rich nectar. 

🌷Stamens are arranged in 2 whorls and carpels are 3 in number.

🌷These flowers are either produced singly, or in racemes, panicles or cymes.

🌷The fruit is a drupe, nut, or samara (with variable shape of wings) usually indehiscent

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/malpighiaceae

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpighiaceae

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/malpighi.htm

https://www.facebook.com/Seminisia/posts/868518086553868

https://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/bunchosia_argentea.htm

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byrsonima_crassifolia_%2829493577323%29.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158071275976552&set=gm.10157877702043213

Reference 

https://www.facebook.com/myplantdiaries?mibextid=ZbWKwL

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