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Baobab subfamily
Bombacoideae
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. The flowers are hermaphroditic and actinomorphic; the calyx has 5 sepals united at the base, which are not accompanied by an epicalyx (involucel). The corolla has 5 free petals and an androecium of numerous stamens, typically with free filaments which are not fused in a staminal tube (column). The pollen is smooth and the ovary superior and pluricarpellate. The fruits are schizocarpous or capsular.
25 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
Ceiba
genusCeiba
Pachira
genusPachira
Baobabs
genusAdansonia
Bombax
genusBombax
Pseudobombax
genusPseudobombax
Lagunaria
genusLagunaria
Ochroma
genusOchroma
Pochota
genusPochota
Matisia
genusMatisia
Cavanillesia
genusCavanillesia
Eriotheca
genusEriotheca
Quararibea
genusQuararibea
spirothecas
genusSpirotheca
Bernoullia
genusBernoullia
Scleronema
genusScleronema
Camptostemon
genusCamptostemon
Huberodendron
genusHuberodendron
Catostemma
genusCatostemma
Patinoa
genusPatinoa
Rhodognaphalon
genusRhodognaphalon
Gyranthera
genusGyranthera
Phragmotheca
genusPhragmotheca
Neobuchia
genusNeobuchia
Pentaplaris
genusPentaplaris
Aguiaria
genusAguiaria
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 520305.