Vochysiaceae Aublet 1775
Creators: name: Ariza-Cortés, William
name: Cortés-B, Rocio
name: Fernández-Alonso, José Luis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Myrtales
Vochysiaceae

description: Key to the genera of Vochysiaceae
1. Trees with unilocular inferior ovary, samaroid fruits .........................................................................................................................2
- Trees, shrubs or subshrubs with trilocular superior ovary, capsular fruits (Neotropics)...................................................................4
2. Flowers with five petals, fruits with five wings (West Africa)...........................................................................................................3
- Flowers with a single petal, fruits with four wings (Neotropics) ............................................................................................. Erisma
3. Calyx with three petaloid sepals and two non-petaloid.............................................................................................. Korupodendron
- Calyx with five non-petaloid sepals ............................................................................................................................. Erismadelphus
4. Petals 5, branches with 5–9 leaves per node ......................................................................................................................... Salvertia
- Petals absent, 1 or 3, branches with 2–5(8) leaves per node ..............................................................................................................5
5. Petals usually 3, less often absent or 1 .................................................................................................................................. Vochysia
- Petals 1................................................................................................................................................................................................6
6. Stipules transformed into glands, fruit without a central column ......................................................................................................7
- Stipules obsolete, not transformed into glands, fruit with a thick and persistent central column ......................................................8
7. Unspurred sepal lobes appressed to the spurred sepal and much shorter than it; anther with unilaterally ciliated theca.................... ........................................................................................................................................................................................... Ruizterania
- Unspurred sepal lobes not appressed to the spurred sepal, generally of similar length; anther glabrous or hairy only on back ......... .................................................................................................................................................................................................. Qualea
8. Inflorescences in cincinnus with 1–5 flowers, unguiculate petal, fruits with brittle exocarp that separates unevenly from the endocarp, circularly winged seeds..................................................................................................................................... Callisthene
- Inflorescences in compound dichasia with more than 16 flowers, sessile petal, fruits with exocarp soft, not brittle, not separated from the endocarp, unilaterally winged seeds .......................................................................................................... Mahechadendron
description: Published as part of Ariza-Cortés, William, Cortés-B, Rocio & Fernández-Alonso, José Luis, 2022, Mahechadendron puntecascarillo (Vochysiaceae), a new genus and forest tree species from Colombia, pp. 89-112 in Phytotaxa 541 (2) on page 108, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.541.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6388623