Elaeaocarpaceae
Region:
Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, West Indies, and South America.
Botany: ± 12 genera, 615 species; trees and shrubs; tropical and subtropical, evergreen; hermaphrodite or dioecious; flowers clustered in inflorescences.
Content: alkaloids.
Genera: Elaeocarpus, ± 350 species, Sloanea, ± 150 species, Aceratium, Aristotelia, Crinodendron, Dubouzetia, Elaeocarpus, Peripentadenia, Platytheca, Sericolea, Sloanea, Tetratheca, Tremandra, Vallea.
TaxonomyIn Stebbins classification and
Cronquist classification Elaeocarpaceae is included in
Malvales. In the Apg classifications the family is included in Oxalidales.