Bombacoideae

Bombacoideae
	Cortex of juvenile Ceiba pentandra
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malvales
Family:	Malvaceae
Subfamily:	Bombacoideae; Burnett, 1835

Bombacoideae is a subfamily of the mallow family, Malvaceae. It contains herbaceous and woody plants. Their leaves are alternate, commonly palmately lobed, with small and caducous stipules. Flowers are hermaphroditic and actinomorphic; the calyx has 5 sepals united at the base, "NOT" accompanied by an epicalyx (involucel). The corolla has 5 free petals and an androecium of numerous stamens, typically with free filaments "NOT" fused in a staminal tube (column). The pollen is smooth and the ovary superior and pluricarpellate. Fruits are schizocarpous or capsular.

Genera

Adansonia L. - baobabs
Aguiaria Ducke
Bernoullia Oliv.
Bombax L.
Camptostemon Mast.
Catostemma Benth.
Cavanillesia Ruiz & Pav.

Ceiba Mill.
Chiranthodendron Larreat.
Eriotheca Schott & Endl.
Fremontodendron Coville
Gyranthera Pittier
Huberodendron Ducke
Lagunaria (DC.) Rchb.

Matisia Humb. & Bonpl.
Neobuchia Urb.
Ochroma Sw.
Pachira Aubl.
Patinoa Cuatrec.
Pentaplaris L.O.Williams & Standl.
Phragmotheca Cuatrec.

Pseudobombax Dugand
Quararibea Aubl.
Rhodognaphalon (Ulbr.) Roberty
Scleronema Benth.
Septotheca Ulbr.
Spirotheca Ulbr.
Uladendron Marc.-Berti[1]

Classification

Some taxa in this subfamily were previously grouped under the now-obsolete family Bombacaceae as recent phylogenetic research has shown that Bombacaceae as traditionally circumscribed (including tribe Durioneae) is not a monophyletic group. Camptostemon, Lagunaria, Pentaplaris and Uladendron might more appropriately be placed in Malvoideae as might the tribe Matisieae (Matisia, Phragmotheca and Quararibea).

References

"GRIN Genera of Malvaceae subfam. Bombacoideae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2017-07-22.

External links

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[GRINGenera-1] "GRIN Genera of Malvaceae subfam. Bombacoideae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2017-07-22.