Sabia family
Sabiaceae

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Sabia family

Sabiaceae

アワブキ科

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A family of woody plants distributed from East to Southeast Asia, including Meliosma and Sabia, with about 4 genera and 160 species. Placed in Proteales (a basal eudicot group) under APG IV, making it phylogenetically unique.

Key Characteristics

  • Woody plants (trees to climbing shrubs)
  • Leaves simple or odd-pinnately compound, alternate
  • Flowers small, bisexual, pentamerous
  • Of 5 stamens, only 2 outer ones fertile; remaining 3 are staminodes (reduced)
  • Drupes or samaras

Morphological Traits

A family may include species with different trait values — multiple values indicate the range within the family.

Leaf arrangement

Alternate

Leaf type

Simple

Venation

Pinnate

Leaf margin

Entire

Growth form

Shrub / Vine

Evergreen/Deciduous

Deciduous

Leaf dissection

Undivided

Stipules

Absent

Flower symmetry

Actinomorphic

Petal count

Many

Petal fusion

Fused

Ovary position

Superior

Stamen count

3-4

Plant sex

Hermaphrodite

Phylogenetic Position

Angiosperms > Basal eudicots > Proteales > Sabiaceae

Divergence Era

Late Cretaceous to Paleogene

Representative Genera

アワブキ属(Meliosma)サビア属(Sabia)

Related Evolution Events

  • Specialization through stamen reduction (formation of staminodes)
  • Diversification endemic to East Asia within the Proteales
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