Apocynaceae
The family of the Apocynacées is a family of plants Dicotylédone S.
List species
Classically, in Classification Cronquist (1981), it includes/understands 1500 Espèce S divided into nearly 164 kind S:
It is, for the majority, of the lianas or the herbaceous plants, some trees or shrubs, with latex, with persistent sheets, of the areas moderated with tropical. It is a cosmopolitan family.
Among Apocynacées, several species were used to obtain rubber. Today this family gives many decorative plants as well as medicinal plants. The plum of the Natal is the edible fruit of Carissa carandas . The latex of certain species of the kind Pachypodium was used by the Bochiman S to poison their arrowheads.
In France one can quote the kinds:
- Vinca with the large periwinkle (Vinca major) or the Small periwinkle ( Vinca minor ) with the blue flowers.
- Nerium with the pink Bay-tree
Another example: the Strophanthus
After 1998
The phylogenetic classification of APG (1998) and APG II (2003) gathers this family with the Asclépiadacées and distinguishes 5 subfamily S which gathers nearly 4555 species in 415 kinds:- Rauvolfioidées, 980 species in 84 kinds
- Apocynoidées, 860 species in 77 kinds
- Périplocoidées, 180 species in 31 kinds
- Sécamonoidées, 170 species in 9 kinds
- Asclépiadoidées, 2365 species in 214 kinds
External bonds
- regional photographic Flora
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