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Sabia family
Sabiaceae
アワブキ科
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
Related Evolution Events
- ・Specialization through stamen reduction (formation of staminodes)
- ・Diversification endemic to East Asia within the Proteales
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