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Lardizabala family
Lardizabalaceae
アケビ科
A family including Akebia, Stauntonia, and other woody climbing plants familiar in Japan. Exhibits a disjunct distribution between East Asia and Chile. Flowers are unisexual, and plants produce fleshy berries with sweet pulp.
Key Characteristics
- ●Mostly woody climbers
- ●Leaves palmately or pinnately compound
- ●Unisexual flowers (monoecious or dioecious)
- ●Three petaloid sepals conspicuous
- ●Fruits fleshy and sweet, seeds dispersed by wild animals
Morphological Traits
A family may include species with different trait values — multiple values indicate the range within the family.
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Venation
Pinnate / Palmate
Leaf margin
Entire
Growth form
Shrub / Vine
Evergreen/Deciduous
Deciduous
Compound type
Ternate / Pinnate / Palmate
Stipules
Absent
Flower symmetry
Actinomorphic
Petal count
3 petals / 6 petals / Many
Ovary position
Superior
Stamen count
3-4 / 6
Plant sex
Dioecious / Monoecious
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Basal eudicots > Ranunculales > Lardizabalaceae
Divergence Era
Late Cretaceous to Paleogene
Representative Genera
Related Evolution Events
- ・Establishment of the East Asia–Chile disjunct distribution through continental drift and climatic isolation
- ・Acquisition of fleshy fruits for animal-mediated seed dispersal
Plants in Lardizabala family on this site
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