Monday, October 6, 2008

Alangium

Alangium is a small genus of flowering plants. The genus is treated either in a broad view of the dogwood family Cornaceae, or as the sole member of its own family Alangiaceae. Differences from the other genera in Cornaceae include articulated pedicels, subulate bracts, bitegmic seeds and the single-seeded fruit.

The genus consists of 17 species of small trees, shrubs and lianas, and is native to western Africa, Madagascar, southern and eastern Asia , tropical Australia, the western Pacific Ocean islands, and New Caledonia.

The entire or lobed are alternate. The bisexual nectiferous flowers are arranged in axillary cymes. The flowers have 4-10 small sepals and 4-10 linear petals. There are 4-40 stamens distributed in a single cycle. The ovary is bilocular , while the fruit is drupe.

;Selected species


''Alangium'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species in the Geometroidea-Drepanoidea assemblage including the and the subfamily Cyclidiinae .

Uses


One species, ''Alangium chinense'' , is considered one of the fifty fundamental herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.

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